Elon Musk's SpaceX aimed on Thursday to launch the company's next-generation Starship spacecraft atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket for the first time, on a highly anticipated but brief uncrewed test flight from the Gulf Coast of Texas.
Final preparations were under way at the company's Starbase launch site east of Brownsville, Texas, for a liftoff three days after anwas scrubbed near the end of the countdown due to a frozen pressurization valve.
A successful flight would instantly rank the Starship system as the most powerful launch vehicle on Earth. Prototypes of the Starship cruise vessel have made five sub-space test flights to altitudes of 6 miles in recent years, but the booster rocket has never left the ground. The tweet set off a flurry of jokes on the social media platform making reference to 4/20 as a date widely associated with cannabis culture, and to the notoriety Musk gained in 2018 for smoking marijuana on a live web show.
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