
SpaceX's expensive starship explosions are starting to add up. Is Elon Musk's Starship no longer on the ascent?
Shortly after the incident, roughly 20 per cent of the engineering group working on the company's flagship Falcon 9 program were reassigned for six months to Starship, a reusable rocket Musk hopes will someday carry humans back to the moon and to Mars, according to people familiar with the company's planning.

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