The most powerful rocket system ever constructed is headed for its next test " using a version of the vehicle that has been at the center of a series of explosive missteps and failures. SpaceX said it is aiming to launch its Starship megarocket on an hour-long test flight as soon as 7:30 p.m. ET Sunday, though the liftoff time is subject to change.
"It's very, very difficult to predict how this is going to end up," said Garrett Reisman, a former NASA astronaut and SpaceX consultant who is a professor of astronautical engineering at the University of Southern California. "I think it could end up never working, or it could end up revolutionizing our entire future of activities in space " and geopolitics," he added, referring to the US goal of displaying technical superiority to China in a new space race.
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