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Elon Musk's SpaceX announced on X that the sixth test flight of the Starship megarocket would take place on Tuesday. Test flights of the new rocket have been steadily increasing, as Gwynne Shotwell, president of SpaceX, told investors the company plans hundreds of Starship rocket launches during President Trump's second term.

The sixth flight test of Starship is targeted for 1600 Central Time on Tuesday. SpaceX's next test flight "aims to expand the envelope on ship and booster capabilities and get closer to bringing reuse of the entire system online," the company wrote in a press release, adding, "Objectives include the booster once again returning to the launch site for catch, reigniting a ship Raptor engine while in space, and testing a suite of heatshield experiments and maneuvering changes for ship reentry and descent over the Indian Ocean." . . The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens.

These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in 4 years. . .

Source (zerohedge.com)

>Elon Musk's SpaceX announced on X that the sixth test flight of the Starship megarocket would take place on Tuesday. Test flights of the new rocket have been steadily increasing, as Gwynne Shotwell, president of SpaceX, told investors the company plans hundreds of Starship rocket launches during President Trump's second term. >The sixth flight test of Starship is targeted for 1600 Central Time on Tuesday. SpaceX's next test flight "aims to expand the envelope on ship and booster capabilities and get closer to bringing reuse of the entire system online," the company wrote in a press release, adding, "Objectives include the booster once again returning to the launch site for catch, reigniting a ship Raptor engine while in space, and testing a suite of heatshield experiments and maneuvering changes for ship reentry and descent over the Indian Ocean." . . The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens. >These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in 4 years. . . [Source](https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/ahead-starship-launch-spacex-president-projects-400-launches-during-trump-era)
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Everything Musk does is about getting to Mars.

Great observation. He gets crazy shit done, and we have a lot of crazy shit straight ahead.