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TexasTowelie

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Fri Mar 26, 2021, 06:54 AM Mar 2021

SpaceX will try to stick the landing for new Starship test flight

March 26 (UPI) -- SpaceX plans another attempt to fly and land the company's Starship moon and Mars rocket over sometime over the next four days from Boca Chica, Texas.

The rocket company has filed for "no-fly" notices during daylight hours from Friday through Monday around the SpaceX launch facility in the community about 180 miles south of Corpus Christi.

Previous test flights of the giant, stainless steel rocket ended in fireballs in December, February and March. The tests are part of SpaceX's rapid prototype development methods, which the company used to develop its highly successful Falcon rockets.

Starship is one of three spacecraft NASA has chosen as possible means to send astronauts back to the moon this decade. The space agency intends to choose two proposals for those crewed lunar missions by mid-2021.

Read more: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2021/03/26/SpaceX-Starship-landing-flight-test-Boca-Chica/9131616695847/

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SpaceX will try to stick the landing for new Starship test flight (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2021 OP
SN11 launched, did the belly flop and apparently exploded before landing. Eugene Mar 2021 #1

Eugene

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1. SN11 launched, did the belly flop and apparently exploded before landing.
Tue Mar 30, 2021, 09:28 AM
Mar 2021

It was too foggy for external video to see much, but there was a large boom with debris raining down on the launch site.

Ended in a RUD.





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