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SpaceX takes second shot at launching biggest rocket
By Associated Press
Apr 20, 2023 1:51 pm

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas: SpaceX prepared to launch the biggest and most powerful rocket on Thursday, working nonstop after the first shot at a test flight fizzled earlier in the week.

The nearly 400-foot (120-meter) Starship was poised to blast off from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. SpaceX's Elon Musk gave 50-50 odds of the spacecraft reaching orbit on its debut.

A boater passes SpaceX's Starship, the world's biggest and most powerful rocket, as it prepares to lift off from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Monday, April 17, 2023. AP PHOTO

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