Musk has hinted that SpaceX's ambitious Starship should be able to complete its first-ever test flight to space sometime next week.
last week at Starbase, SpaceX's facility in South Texas, by stacking the prototype Ship 24 upper stage on top of the Booster 7 first stage on the orbital launch rack.Many people said that this activity shows that the Starship project is getting close to being ready for an actual launch. Given Musk's recent tweet, this would seem to support this hypothesis.
In case you are unaware of what Starship is for, SpaceX is creating it to ferry cargo and people to the Moon, Mars, and potentially beyond. Musk thinks that the huge vehicle's ability to be used more than once will change how people travel to space. And the spaceship is mighty indeed, with 33 of SpaceX's new Raptor engines powering the Super Heavy first stage of Starship, while the upper-stage spacecraft has six Raptors. When Starship successfully launches for the first time, its 33 first-stage engines will provide 16.5 million pounds of thrust, making it the most powerful rocket in history.
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