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Josh Dinner

SpaceX's 6th Starship megarocket launch looked amazing from space in astronaut and camera views (photo, video)

A white squiggly cloud scrapes vertically in the center, with the dark blue of the sea dropped behind. Land cuts across the bottom, its green hue blued by the atmosphere above.

The largest rocket ever built launched on its sixth test flight earlier this week, wowing spectators on the ground — and even some in space.

SpaceX's monstrous, 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship rocket launched Tuesday evening (Nov. 19), lifting off from SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT). The spectacle was watched by tens of thousands in surrounding cities and towns, streamed by millions, and witnessed by a few astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

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