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President Trump arrived to watch the SpaceX Starship rocket launch with Elon Musk from a base near Boca Chica, Texas on Tuesday afternoon.
Senator Ted Cruz, Donald Trump Jr., and others joined President Trump at the launch site.
WATCH:
President Trump has arrived to watch the SpaceX launch with @elonmusk! pic.twitter.com/D5awPUUQTC
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) November 19, 2024
President Trump got a lesson on the Starship from Elon Musk.
WATCH:
President Trump gets a lesson on the Starship from @elonmusk at the @SpaceX launch in Texas pic.twitter.com/IrFuieyKqi
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) November 19, 2024
President Trump beamed with pride as the Starship launched from Elon Musk’s base in Texas.
VIDEO:
.@SpaceX Starship pic.twitter.com/hiliGwkW9p
— Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) November 19, 2024
CBS News reported:
With President-elect Donald Trump and newly-minted efficiency czar Elon Musk looking on, SpaceX launched the world’s most powerful rocket on its sixth test flight Tuesday, an up-and-down trip to space by a gargantuan Super Heavy-Starship to evaluate a variety of safety and performance upgrades.
Shattering the afternoon calm with an ear-splitting roar, the huge 30-foot-wide, 397-foot-tall rocket blasted off from Musk’s sprawling Boca Chica, Texas, manufacturing and test facility on the Gulf Coast near Brownsville at 5 p.m. EST, the opening of a 30-minute launch window.
With its 33 Raptor engines gulping 40,000 pounds of liquid oxygen and methane fuel per second, the Super Heavy-Starship majestically climbed away to the east over the Gulf of Mexico atop a brilliant plume of white-hot flame and a churning cloud of exhaust.
Two-and-a-half minutes after liftoff, after pushing the rocket out of the dense lower atmosphere, the Starship’s six Raptor engines ignited to continue the climb to space while the Super Heavy booster fell away, reversed course and began flying back to the launch site.
