SpaceX's Starship Becomes Tallest Rocket Ever Assembled, Breaking World Record - News 8.7.2021

Elon Musk and SpaceX have broken the world record this weekend for tallest functional rocket, now that a Starship prototype has been stacked atop a booster stage rocket.

The stacked rocket comes out to nearly 400 feet tall.

SpaceX web site slide on the Starship spacecraft system.

SpaceX web site slide on the Starship spacecraft system.

As Elon Musk explained in a tweet, "due to its size & ability to return science instruments even from deep space, Starship will enable a whole new class of science missions.”

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