SpaceX is about to send his spaceship - the strongest rocket ever built - into the orbit to test the reality of life on Mars.
The company hopes to be able to carry out a start test on Monday, the founders Elon Musk brings his dream to colonize the red planet.
SpaceX published photos of the huge spaceship this week, which is supposed to send astronauts to the moon and beyond, on his starting ramp at the company headquarters in Boca Chica, Texas.
"Spaceship fully stacked in Starbase," said SpaceX in a tweet. "The team is working on a starting test next week, followed by Starship's first integrated flight test ~ a week later until the official approval is available."
SpaceX needs green light from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) before it can carry out the test start. Space observer with eagle eyes pointed out that the FAA planning document listed a start on April 10 with reserve days on April 11th and 12th.
If everything goes according to plan, the orbital flight will take off from Texas before landing off the coast of Hawaii.
The company carried out a successful start of the 33 Raptor engines in February on the Starship first level booster.
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