SpaceX's towering Super Heavy booster, one half of the company's Starship rocket system, briefly roared to life for the first time on Thursday in a test-firing that puts the behemoth moon and Mars vehicle closer to its first orbital flight in the coming months, a company live stream showed.
"Keep in mind, this first one is really a test flight," Shotwell said. "The real goal is to not blow up the launch pad, that is success."
Starship, the centerpiece of Musk's goal to colonize Mars, is a stainless steel-clad, two-stage rocket system standing taller than the Statue of Liberty at nearly 400 feet . Its 33 Raptor rocket engines make it more powerful than the Saturn V, NASA's rocket that sent humans to the moon under its Apollo program.
A day before SpaceX's static fire test, NASA in Mississippi test-fired a redesigned version of its own rocket engines, the Aerojet Rocketdyne-built RS-25, which will power the U.S. space agency's Space Launch System rocket.
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