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SpaceX Constructs Really, Really Big Rocket

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Space travel has been in the news recently for a whole host of reasons we?re a bit iffy on, to put it kindly. Billionaires buying their way into a few minutes of zero gravity isn?t what gets us excited about exploring space, but the big personalities with their company?s names on the side of their rockets get a ton of media attention. So it?s easy to miss something truly mesmerizing coming out of SpaceX, like the joining of their Starship space craft with the Super Heavy booster. The two halves of this monster ship make for a rocket that?s over 400 feet tall, and according to SpaceX?s own ego-centric billionaire, it will be capable of taking humans to the moon and Mars in the (relatively) near term. There?s still a lot of testing that needs to be done, of course, but seeing Starship and Super Heavy joined together, if only temporarily, is awe inspiring stuff. Read m...