The world’s largest and most powerful rocket is almost 400ft tall.
SpaceX’s mega Starship rocket completed its first full test flight Thursday, returning to Earth without exploding after blasting off from Texas.
The world’s largest and most powerful rocket — almost 400ft tall — was empty as it soared above the Gulf of Mexico and headed east on a flight to the Indian Ocean.Minutes after Thursday morning’s lift-off, the first-stage booster separated from the spacecraft and splashed into the gulf precisely as planned, after firing its engines.
“And we have splashdown!” SpaceX launch commentator Kate Tice announced from Mission Control at company headquarters in California. Nasa has ordered a pair of Starships for two moon-landing missions by astronauts later this decade. Each moon crew will rely on Nasa’s own rocket and capsule to leave Earth, but meet Starship in lunar orbit for the ride down to the surface.
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