"SpaceX's Starship Takes Flight to Mars in Stunning Animation"

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Source: Interesting Engineering
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SpaceX has shared an animation of its Starship spacecraft making a journey to Mars. The video shows the spacecraft launching to orbit and detaching from the Super Heavy first-stage booster, while Super Heavy returns to Earth and is caught on the ground by SpaceX's "Mechazilla" launch tower. The animation also shows Starship spacecraft touching down on a landing pad and emitting impressive exhaust clouds. SpaceX aims to build one million Starship spacecraft to send more than one million humans to Mars by 2050. The private space firm could launch the Starship Orbital Flight Test (OFT) as soon as April 20.

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