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SpaceX clears final hurdle for second Starship test flight
SpaceX has received clearance from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to launch its huge Starship rocket on a much-anticipated second test flight. The agency granted SpaceX a launch license for the company's next-generation rocket on Wednesday, after a first launch attempt in April ended in a fiery explosion. “The FAA has given license authorization for the second launch of the @SpaceX Starship Super Heavy vehicle,” the FAA said in a statement on the social media platform X. “The FAA… (www.nbcnews.com) More...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Liftoff is scheduled to occur on Saturday (November 18) during a 20-minute window that opens at 8 am EST (1300 UTC).
Hope they video gets posted!
SpaceX will be livestreaming it on Twitter/X
It’ll be live streamed by a bunch of youtubers on site, too. nasaspaceflight and labpadre, to name two.
Not getting up that early to watch something that’ll be on YT later on.
To quote Jim Lovell, "There is nothing routine about spaceflight." There ae always glitches and hiccups before you can have a successful launch and flight. Most do not remember the early days of NASA, when they had a blank check! They are movies, but there is a lot of truth in "The Right Stuff, and, "The Martian". Many Oh S**t moments before they got it right!