Elon Musk’s SpaceX aimed on Thursday to launch the company’s next-generation Starship spacecraft atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket for the first time, on a highly anticipated but brief crewless test flight from the Gulf Coast of Texas.
Final preparations were underway at the company’s Starbase launch site east of Brownsville, Texas, for a liftoff three days after an earlier launch attempt was scrubbed near the end of the countdown due to a frozen pressurization valve.
Barring further show-stoppers on Thursday, the two-stage rocket ship, standing taller than the Statue of Liberty at 120 metres high, was due to blast off between 9:30
