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, president-elect Donald Trump is expected to attend the sixth orbital flight test of its Starship rocket, the largest rocket in the world, which will lift off from SpaceX's Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas.
The launch is scheduled to occur at 5 pm EST — though in this line of business, delays frequently occur. According, the Federal Aviation Administration issued temporary flight restrictions for "VIP Movement" near the launch site on Monday, an order that typically precedes a high-profile visit. If the news is true, it's yet another clear sign of the deepening personal ties between Musk — a self-styled "The Starship test hopes to demonstrate that the upper stage of the launch vehicle, the Starship itself rather than its enormous booster, can relight one of its rocket engines in space. This capability will be essential for the spacecraft to perform controlled reentries into the Earth's atmosphere, thus paving the way for its reusability.
As for the SpaceX test's audience, this won't be the first time that Trump has attended one in person. During his first term as president, he watched the launch of aThe context this time around is decidedly different. The 2020 launch marked the first time that NASA astronauts were carried to orbit from home soil in nearly a decade, as the US had long depended on Russia's launch capabilities to carry out the task.
There's little doubt that Starship will be an important rocket, provided it lives up to its expectations. But the Tuesday launch test has no such historic plaudits attached to it, and does not serve as testament to a deepening NASA-SpaceX relationship (Trump's attendance, therefore, seems in service of boosting Musk's brand along with his own — while intertwining each with the other ever more inextricably.But to that end, most of the groundwork has already been laid.
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