Liftoff of the gigantic rocket was called off just minutes ahead of the scheduled launch time because of a pressurisation issue in the booster stage, SpaceX said.
SpaceX on Monday postponed the first test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, designed to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars and beyond.
The US space agency Nasa has picked the Starship spacecraft to ferry astronauts to the Moon in late-2025 — a mission known as Artemis III — for the first time since the Apollo program ended in 1972. SpaceX conducted a successful test-firing of the 33 Raptor engines on the first-stage booster in February but the Starship spacecraft and the Super Heavy rocket have never flown together.Mr Musk had warned ahead of the test that a delay was likely."There's a million ways this rocket could fail," Mr Musk said."We're going to be very careful and if we see anything that gives us concern, we'll postpone.
Mr Musk said the goal is to make Starship reusable and bring down the price to a few million US dollars per flight.
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