Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the world’s most powerful rocket, its 500-foot-tall Starship, on a historic test flight Thursday morning — only for it to explode mid-air just minutes later.
The giant rocket lifted off from the launch pad in Boca Chica, Texas a few minutes after Thursday’s launch window opened at 8:28 a.m. local time (9:28 a.m. ET).
Footage of the launch showed that the rocket — which is poised to take people to the moon as early as 2025 — failed to separate from its booster and began spinning before it blew up as it was 18 miles above the earth.
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