5 QUESTIONS ABOUT SPACEX’s STARSHIP
Quick guide to SpaceX’s Starship
WHY WE TALK ABOUT IT
Starship is the world’s largest space rocket. Elon Musk aims to use it to send people to Mars.
WHY IS IT USEFUL?
The huge rocket is reusable, so it is cheaper to operate than NASA’s rockets.
HOW MUCH DOES IT WEIGH?
The rocket’s weight is 5000 tonnes.
Billionaire Elon Musk plans to colonise Mars, and 22 years ago he founded the SpaceX aerospace company to make his dream come true. The rocket that can make the journey to our neighbouring red planet is known as Starship, and as we go to press it is being prepared for its fourth test flight.
SpaceX’s plans are ambitious, but its attitude to testing (explosions are not a failure) has seen its projects evolve far faster than a cautious
