Elon Musk’s SpaceX called off the highly anticipated debut launch of its newly combined Starship cruise vessel and Super Heavy rocket in the final minutes of countdown due to a frozen valve, delaying the uncrewed test flight for at least two days.
FILE PHOTO: Tourists take photos at sunset of SpaceX’s Starship the day before it launches from the Starbase launchpad on an orbital test mission, in Boca Chica, Texas, US, April 16, 2023. REUTERS/Gene Blevins
SpaceX later said on Twitter that its teams were “working towards Thursday, April 20” for a second launch attempt. Getting the Starship to space for the first time would represent a key milestone in SpaceX’s ambition of sending humans back to the moon and ultimately to Mars – at least initially as part of NASA’s newly inaugurated human spaceflight program, Artemis.
But neither stage would be recovered for the expendable first test flight to space. Instead, both parts of the spacecraft would end their inaugural flight with crash landings at sea – the upper-stage of the Starship coming down in the Pacific after achieving nearly one full orbit of the Earth.
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