A fully stacked Starship left the ground today (April 20) for the first time ever — and it came to an explosive end high in the Texas sky.
The upper stage, meanwhile, was supposed to fire up its six Raptors to head up to the final frontier, and a planned partial trip around our planet.
, and Starship is far bolder and more complex than most launchers. Rather, today was all about gathering data and responding properly to whatever ended up happening, company representatives stressed. "It's just going to be kind of amazing just to see what happens," Shannon Hulbert, 49, told Space.com while observing Starship on its pad from the dunes of Boca Chica Beach."I love ... the quest that the SpaceX team has the idea of going to Mars and making us multiplanetary."
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