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17-04-2023, 10:41 PM
The commercial spaceflight company SpaceX scrapped its first scheduled test flight of Starship, a huge, stainless-steel rocket that could one day carry humans to the moon, Mars and beyond.
"It's a very complex machine; it has so many different components," says Paulo Lozano, director of MIT's space propulsion laboratory.
The rocket is larger than any ever built.
SpaceX seems to understand the risks. When the company recently posted its timeline for Monday's test flight, it replaced "liftoff" in its mission timeline with two words: "excitement guaranteed."
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/17/117035523...hip-rocket
"It's a very complex machine; it has so many different components," says Paulo Lozano, director of MIT's space propulsion laboratory.
The rocket is larger than any ever built.
SpaceX seems to understand the risks. When the company recently posted its timeline for Monday's test flight, it replaced "liftoff" in its mission timeline with two words: "excitement guaranteed."
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/17/117035523...hip-rocket
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