The super heavy booster is packed with 33 engines, and it will attempt to push the uncrewed starship spacecraft which sits on top of the rocket booster into space.
If you're traveling in a starship at close to the speed of light, you'll still experience the familiar one-second-per-second ticking of a clock — but an observer back on Earth would see your clock moving glacially slow.
If you're a plumber who enjoys science fiction, you might well consider a novel about a plumber aboard a starship or on an alien planet. Sound ludicrous?
What I want is to be departing the starship Enterprise in a oneman shuttle craft headed to the planetoid I rule Known as Sheldon Alpha Five. I want that too.
They are calling it Starbase, Louisiana, a play off SpaceX's existing Starbase in South Texas, where the company develops and tests its massive Starship rocket.
The uncrewed Starship mission lifted off from SpaceX's facility in South Texas, with the spacecraft riding on top of a massive super-heavy rocket booster.