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SpaceX plans to launch its Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sunday.

Read the latest news about SpaceX's Crew-6 and Crew-7 missions to the International Space Station for NASA.

The largest rocket to ever take flight requires a substantial number of upgrades ahead of its second test flight, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed this past weekend.

And you can see the contrail. we're coming up, three big sequence, and a view, live of the crew inside dragon. they're getting ready. we're going to get three events here. main engine cutoff and then we're going to light the second stage engine. in preparation for stage separation. >> stage separation confirmed. copy two alpha. [ cheers and applause ] >> stage one start-up. >> all right. stage separation, we've lit the second stage engine. working its way back towards cape canaveral.

>> reporter: it was all systems go as the most powerful rocket ever blasted off from its texas launchpad. staff was cheering the spa spacex's starship. elon musk's mentor into the cosmos. but four minutes in the 400-foot rocket exploded. spacex tweeting as if the flight test was not exciting enough, starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembling before stage separation. spacex remains optimistic despite the short flight also tweeting, the test like this, success comes from what we learn and today's test will help us improve the reliability as spacex seeks to make life multi-planetary. ...