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https://phys.org/news/2023-04-spacex-powerful-rocket-monday.html

SpaceX plans to carry out its first test flight on Monday
of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, designed
to send astronauts to the Moon and eventually beyond.

The launch is scheduled to take place at 7:00 am (1200 GMT)
from the sprawling Texas base of the private space company
owned by billionaire Elon Musk.

Fallback times are scheduled later in the week if Monday's
attempt is postponed.

The US space agency NASA has picked the Starship capsule to
ferry its astronauts to the Moon as part of the Artemis III
mission, set for late 2025 at the earliest.

. . .

It IS big.

The cargo capacity alone is enough to set up a moon hut
or two every trip.

Anyway, we'll see. Musk, in usual fashion, only gives it
about a 50% chance of success :-)

However ... I thought they were set up at the KSC. Why
the shift to Texas ? I have suspicions that POLITICS
are involved - NASA not wanting competition with it's
own new system.

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