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SpaceX launches Starship prototype on dramatic test flight – CBS News
The Starship test rocket’s single Raptor engine boosted the vehicle into the sky above Boca Chica, Texas, atop a plume of flaming exhaust and billowing clouds of smoke.
After repeated delays for a variety of technical issues, SpaceX successfully launched a methane-powered prototype of its planned high-power Starship rocket on Tuesday. The company sent a dummy stage aloft from its south Texas test facility for a brief up-and-down hop to a nearby landing pad.
The test flight came just two days after a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft brought two NASA astronauts safely back to Earth with a Gulf of Mexico splashdown after a near-flawless test flight expected to clear…
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