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It's just gargantuan. built by elon musk�*s company spacex, starship has been in development for years. parts of the rocket have been tested, making short flights with attempted landings — not always successfully. but the idea is to be able to bring the entire launch system back to earth, making it fully reusable. forthis back to earth, making it fully reusable. for this test flight, starship will blast off from the spacex launch pad in texas. first, the lower part of the rocket will detach for a controlled splashdown in the ocean. the upper stage will carry on, aiming for almost a full or...

But the idea is to be able to bring the entire launch system back to earth, making it fully reusable. for this test flight, starship will blast off from the spacex launch pad in texas. first, the lower part of the rocket will detach for a controlled splashdown in the ocean. the upper stage will carry on, aiming for almost a full orbit of earth before finally ending up in the pacific. there's a lot that could go wrong, and even elon musk admits there's only a 50% chance it will work. if they get all the way around and this vehicle splashes down just off hawaii, they might actually be a little b...

Will detach for a controlled splashdown in the ocean. the upper stage will carry on, aiming for almost a full orbit of earth before finally ending up in the pacific. there's a lot that could go wrong, and even elon musk admits there's only a 50% chance it will work. if they get all the way around and this vehicle splashes down just off hawaii, they may actually be a little bit surprised that they've been successful. a but that's just part of the process, part ofof the engineering development that they're doing. so we should expect failure. it's quite probable there will be some sort of failure...

Three, two, one... and this is the rocket they'll be riding on. it made a test flight to the moon last year. now it's ready for a crew. the artemis ii mission will lift off from cape canaveral in florida. the spacecraft will spend the first 42 hours orbiting the earth, testing the life support systems. it's the first time they'll have been used. the astronauts will then spend four days travelling to the moon, flying far beyond it, before heading back for a splashdown in the pacific ocean. the whole trip will take about ten days. it's been 50 years since humanity last visited the moon. this nex...