SpaceX's Starship rocket prototype explodes during test
by Reuters from Science | The Guardian on (#543C1)
- 394ft rocket designed to carry humans and cargo to moon and Mars
- No immediate indication of injuries after explosion in Texas
A prototype of SpaceX's upcoming heavy-lift rocket, Starship, exploded on Friday during ground tests in south Texas as Elon Musk's space company pursued an aggressive development schedule to fly the launch vehicle for the first time.
The testing explosion was unrelated to SpaceX's upcoming launch of two Nasa astronauts from Florida's Kennedy Space Center using a different rocket system, the Falcon 9 with the Crew Dragon capsule fixed on top.
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