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Thursday, April 20, 2023
SpaceX’s Starship, world’s biggest rocket, explodes during test flight
SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, explodes during the first test flight of the spacecraft designed to send astronauts to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
The gigantic rocket successfully blasted off at 8:33 a.m. Central Time (1333 GMT) from Starbase, the private SpaceX spaceport in Boca Chica, Texas.
NEW: The @SpaceX Starship–the largest and most powerful rocket ever created and intended to send astronauts to the moon and Mars–successfully lifts off.
The rocket exploded during booster separation four minutes after liftoff.pic.twitter.com/wJMMZxp3GG
— Alex Salvi (@alexsalvinews) April 20, 2023
The Starship capsule had been scheduled to separate from the first-stage rocket booster three minutes into the flight but separation failed to occur and the rocket blew up.
“As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation,” SpaceX tweets.
