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Mike Wall

SpaceX's Starship could fly again as soon as early May

A rocket lifts off, creating a dark cloud of smoke and dust.

We might not have to wait too long to see the world's most powerful rocket take to the skies again.

That vehicle, SpaceX's 400-foot-tall (122-meter-tall) Starship, conducted its third test flight last Thursday (March 14) from the company's Starbase launch site in South Texas. Starship notched a number of important milestones on that mission, but both of its stages ended up breaking apart while descending through Earth's atmosphere.

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