SpaceX is preparing for the second test flight of Starship, the giant rocket that is being built to carry NASA's astronauts to the surface of the moon and Elon Musk's ambitions to Mars.
That means Starship has to be big. Stacked on top of what SpaceX calls a Super Heavy booster, the Starship rocket system will be, by pretty much every measure, the biggest and most powerful ever.
For NASA, Starship is a future moon lander for astronauts under the Artemis missions. But for, Mr. Musk, the founder and chief executive of SpaceX, the vehicle is central to his vision of carrying settlers to the red planet.
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