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What is Elon Musk's Starship space vehicle?

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Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship rocket is now the largest and most powerful spacecraft ever built.

It's designed to be fully and rapidly reusable, and can be used more like a plane than a traditional rocket system.

The rocket system will one day take humanity to Mars , but there are no plans to put people aboard for the next test flight.

This will be the first time we hope to see the booster return to the launch pad.

While SpaceX plan to catch the booster with the launch tower, we won't get a similar return of the top part this time.

Starship has been built to carry heavy loads needed to build space stations, and eventually, infrastructure for a human presence on the Moon.

It could be used to make long-haul trips to Mars and back about a nine month trip each way.

One launch of Starship emits as much greenhouse gas as 846 cars would emit over the course of a year .

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