SpaceX launch : World's most powerful rocket takes off

Elon Musk's SpaceX succeeds in a second attempt at launching its Starship rocket system after a late setback on Monday.

This is the spacecraft that's been tipped to carry humans to Mars take flight for the first time.

#spacex #elonmusk #rocket #launch

[johnbhoy]

Every other media channel reported it like a failure. It wasn’t a failure it got over the launchpad and got 38 kilometres up. SpaceX got everything they needed for this launch

[MrFoster]

The fact that the dust cloud went higher than the starship just goes to show how powerful those engines are.

[lycanthropeify]

First news channel that didn’t post spacex blows up rocket… bravo!

[TW-ltvr]

The test was intended to be, as most people say, unsuccessful. The only requirement was to get off the pad, it was going to be destroyed either way. But what's even more impressive is that it made it past Max-Q. This is why they're cheering, because this test was an amazing success.

[Michael-itgb]

*Rocket starts spinning
"We're gonna have separation soon"
*Spins all over the place
"Any moment now..."
*Explodes

[shootloadrepeat]

I like how the engines look like simple LED bulbs from straight-on angle

[glennnile]

I've never seen a rocket ignite and then sit there on the ground for a few seconds before it started to lift off. Damn that thing is big, and heavy.

[Sean-iljx]

Going to Mars in our lifetime :) incredible

[timothylyons]

Alan, show them how it's done.
Launch Thunderbird Three

[ethandawson]

Awesome 🚀 launch and a explosion to top it off

[rogermoore]

Could do without the canned hockey game audio

[Hrithmus]

For that thing to even make it off the pad and how insane that view of the engines through the clouds was unreal looking.

[silentowlscribe]

At least it was a test flight, so nobody on board. Back to the supercomputers.

[theoracle]

Wow! " Everything after take off is an icing on the cake! " Never count your chickens before they are hatched, la.

[knucksandvoltesv]

LIFT MAGIC CARPET all be dancing to the song OOBY DOOBY!!!

[amfearliathmor]

I would rather spends two weeks on a Bicycling Holiday in Cyprus rather than two weeks on Mars.

[skanthaadsigns]

There goes our Paris Agreement emission cuts 🤣

[CorkBouldering]

the thing blows up in the air and people are even more happy.

[amfearliathmor]

The Largest Rocket Explosion Ever - The Soviet N1 Moon Rocket Failure
Looks like someone is going to have to change the title of their Youtube Video.

[johnryan]

The patient died but the operation was a resounding success. WTF is going on, 54 years ago NASA sent 3 guys to the Moon and two of them walked they all came back.