<ul><li>Elon Musk's Starship rocket, designed to carry humans to Mars, is almost 400ft tall and has 33 Raptor engines, making it the most powerful rocket ever built.</li><li>With over 16 million pounds of thrust, the Starship rocket is twice as powerful as the Saturn V rocket that carried Americans to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s.</li><li>Starship was co-opted by NASA to take part in the first attempt to return astronauts to the Moon since 1972 and can carry payloads of up to 100 tonnes, potentially challenging SpaceX's own Falcon 9 rockets as the main workhorse for reaching space.</li><li>The maiden flight of Starship to space was delayed after a problem with fuel pressure in the rocket's first stage, prompting SpaceX to call off the first orbital launch test.</li></ul>

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