Elon Musk Prepares SpaceX Starship for First Orbital Flight
Elon Musk of SpaceX has prepared Starship and the booster to go on a test into EARTH ORBIT. Scheduled for departure in October or November, the rocket is undergoing a test flight campaign of firing its engines. Starship is being developed by Elon Musk to take humanity to Mars for colonization and to become a multiplanetary species and to ensure continuing the light of consciousness.
The stainless steel rocket uses powerful Raptor engines, developed by SpaceX, running on methalox, methane and liquid oxygen. Starship is slated to become the most powerful rocket in the world, eclipsing the massive NASA Saturn 5 rocket that took Americans to the Moon on July 20, 1969. Starship has designs to land on the Moon and Mars.
