Elon Musk’s ambitious plan to return Americans to the Moon is facing renewed scrutiny after a string of mishaps involving SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket, raising fresh doubts about whether NASA can meet President Donald Trump’s aggressive lunar timetable, The Telegraph reported Wednesday.
In the predawn hours of a late November test in Texas, SpaceX engineers were conducting routine structural checks on Starship’s upgraded Super Heavy booster when the rocket suddenly ruptured, cracking open and releasing clouds of gas across the Boca Chica launch site.
SpaceX described the incident as an “anomaly” and said no one was injured. But it was the latest setback for the rocket system central to NASA’s plans to put humans back on the Moon for the first time since 1972.
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