America is again!
President Trump arrived to observe the SpaceX Starship rocket launch with Elon Musk from a base close to Boca Chica, Texas on Tuesday afternoon.
Senator Ted Cruz, Donald Trump Jr., and others joined President Trump on the launch web site.
WATCH:
President Trump has arrived to observe the SpaceX launch with @elonmusk! pic.twitter.com/D5awPUUQTC
— Trump Battle Room (@TrumpWarRoom) November 19, 2024
President Trump received a lesson on the Starship from Elon Musk.
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President Trump will get a lesson on the Starship from @elonmusk on the @SpaceX launch in Texas pic.twitter.com/IrFuieyKqi
— Trump Battle Room (@TrumpWarRoom) November 19, 2024
President Trump beamed with satisfaction because the Starship launched from Elon Musk’s base in Texas.
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.@SpaceX Starship pic.twitter.com/hiliGwkW9p
— Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) November 19, 2024
CBS Information reported:
With President-elect Donald Trump and newly-minted effectivity czar Elon Musk wanting on, SpaceX launched the world’s strongest rocket on its sixth check flight Tuesday, an up-and-down journey to house by a gargantuan Tremendous Heavy-Starship to guage quite a lot of security and efficiency upgrades.
Shattering the afternoon calm with an ear-splitting roar, the massive 30-foot-wide, 397-foot-tall rocket blasted off from Musk’s sprawling Boca Chica, Texas, manufacturing and check facility on the Gulf Coast close to Brownsville at 5 p.m. EST, the opening of a 30-minute launch window.
With its 33 Raptor engines gulping 40,000 kilos of liquid oxygen and methane gasoline per second, the Tremendous Heavy-Starship majestically climbed away to the east over the Gulf of Mexico atop an excellent 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 decrease ambiance, the Starship’s six Raptor engines ignited to proceed the climb to house whereas the Tremendous Heavy booster fell away, reversed course and started flying again to the launch web site.