The giant Starship rocket launched in Texas today, April 20, but exploded just four minutes after take off.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship rocket, believed to the be the largest ever built, blew up just minutes after taking off today.
The rocket exploded four minutes after setting off at South Padre Island in Texas, at 2:33pm UK time, on April 20. It is believed that two parts of the rocket failed to separate.View gallery Waiting crowds cheered alongside SpaceX staff despite the explosion. SpaceX posted on Twitter afterwards and said: “As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation.”
They already have more Starship rockets in production for future tests, and it is all to meet Musk's goal of making humans an interplanetary species and one day to colonise Mars.
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