Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship, designed to go to Mars, successfully soared eight miles above the company's testing facilities in South Texas on Wednesday, performed a programmed belly flop, and came back down as planned, before crashing into the ground in an enormous plume of flames and smoke. Musk said there was an issue with the rocket's fuel system.
When SpaceX mates a Falcon Super Heavy booster and Starship, the entire ensemble will stand nearly 400 feet tall. It will be just a few feet taller than NASA’s Saturn V rocket that carried humans to the moon, which remains the largest and most powerful rocket that has ever flown to space.
Full 6-minute flight:
SpaceX Launches—and Crashes—Its Starship Mars Rocket
When SpaceX mates a Falcon Super Heavy booster and Starship, the entire ensemble will stand nearly 400 feet tall. It will be just a few feet taller than NASA’s Saturn V rocket that carried humans to the moon, which remains the largest and most powerful rocket that has ever flown to space.
Full 6-minute flight:
SpaceX Launches—and Crashes—Its Starship Mars Rocket
