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Big Blow To Elon Musk’s Mars Colonisation Plan? Starship Megarocket Blows Up In Another Bumpy Test
SpaceX's prototype Starship exploded over the Indian Ocean on May 27, capping another bumpy test flight for the rocket central to billionaire Elon Musk's dream of colonising Mars.The biggest and most powerful launch vehicle ever built lifted off around 6:36 pm (2336 GMT) from the company's Starbase facility, near a southern Texas village that earlier this month voted to become a city -- also named Starbase. But signs of trouble emerged quickly: the first-stage Super Heavy booster blew up instead of executing its planned splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.Watch for more details. 00:00 Introduction0030: Space X launched its ninth Starship test flight2:12 This was the third consecutive major failure 3:50 Starship lost control, began spinning uncontrollablyn18oc_world n18oc_crux

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