21/04/2023
After a Monday, April 17, scrub, SpaceX launched its Starship rocket today at 8:33 a.m. CT in South Texas. The tallest and most powerful rocket ever launched cleared the pad, roared into the sky, and successfully passed through a key moment of heavy aerodynamic stress. The plan was for the Super Heavy booster to separate from the spacecraft. Instead, it began flipping and broke apart midflight.
The rocket possesses about twice the thrust of the Apollo Saturn V, which launched astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and ’70s. Starship, which is considered pivotal to the future of SpaceX, is also crucial for future human space exploration: It’s part of NASA’s Artemis program to land on the moon. Read the full story at the link in bio and follow me, , for continuing coverage of the NASA Artemis program.
