Starship is the tallest, most powerful rocket ever built, capable of generating about 17 million pounds of thrust upon liftoff
Starship
It’s the culmination of years of regulatory work and technological tests for SpaceX and the largest and most powerful rocket ever built
The wet dress is a critical series of prelaunch tests that includes propellant loading of both stages & a run-through of countdown to around T-10 sec.
The fireball occurred during a spin start test of all 33 Raptor engines onboard
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Musk said by the fourth or fifth Martian landing -operating every two years or so- he'd consider allowing his children to make the trip to the Red Planet
Future versions of the Starship spacecraft could hold up to 100 people with the most optimistic predictions for launch as early as 2024
Using a Starship from Musk’s SpaceX company could become the newest form of container shipping
"We definitely want to land it on the Moon before 2022"
But Starhopper apparently emerged relatively unscathed