Gigantic rocket takes flight as Trump watches alongside Elon Musk, Cruz, Hagerty, Cramer & Jackson

Trump gets a lesson on the Starship from Elon Musk at the SpaceX launch in Texas

SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket launched for its latest test flight at 5 p.m. ET, where the company didn’t catch its Super Heavy booster after takeoff. This mission marks SpaceX’s fastest turnaround yet, with new upgrades to the booster’s propulsion systems aiming for a smoother and faster catch using the launchpad’s “Mechazilla” claws.

President-elect Donald Trump attended the event with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk at the company’s Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas. Trump was joined by some of his staff and Republican lawmakers, including Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Kevin Cramer (R-S.D.) and Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas). Trump embraced Musk, the founder of SpaceX, upon arriving at the company’s Brownsville launch facility.

Trump flew to South Texas to watch as Musk’s SpaceX launched a Starship rocket near the Mexican border. Trump listened intently as the world’s richest man explained how the test would work and demonstrated with a model. And then Trump squinted into the bright sky to watch liftoff. Trump’s presence at the launch was a remarkable display of intimacy between the two men, one with implications for American politics, the government, foreign policy and even the possibility of humans reaching Mars.

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Gigantic rocket takes flight as Trump watches alongside Elon Musk, Cruz, Hagerty, Cramer & Jackson

Key Points

Trump gets a lesson on the Starship from Elon Musk at the SpaceX launch in Texas

SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket launched for its latest test flight at 5 p

• ET, where the company didn’t catch its Super Heavy booster after takeoff
• This mission marks SpaceX’s fastest turnaround yet, with new upgrades to the booster’s propulsion systems aiming for a smoother and faster catch using the launchpad’s “Mechazilla” claws
• President-elect Donald Trump attended the event with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk at the company’s Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas

Transcript Highlights

The following is transcribed from the video audio:

• Disturber Altar So if the pole is fixed, it’s going like this
• It’s literally trying to use its entire body as a break
• And then it’s using these flaps to just control its position
• You try to see if broccoli is 70 degree angle to the back
• And then when it goes up, sorry, it can go by computer or by moon
• So then when it goes up, it actually starts going, it’s falling down like this
• So you can think of these flaps like this guy that was on his legs
• And then right at the end it’s right at the left

Full transcript: 121 words transcribed via Whisper AI.