CLARY/AFP via Getty Images The councils resolution is disconnected from reality and is meaningless.

As SpaceX sums up the countdown on the companys website: Excitement guaranteed.Multiple test flights will be needed to demonstrate the reliability required for astronaut flights and its not yet clear how long that might take.

but will fall tail first into the Gulf of Mexico instead.but no recovery is planned for this initial test flight.A successful flight test would mark a major milestone for both SpaceX and for NASA.

the Super Heavy-Starship launch pad was heavily damaged.SpaceX is counting on the rocket to vastly expand its constellation of Starlink internet satellites and to power eventual low-cost government and commercial flights to the moon.

The goal of the flight is to send the Starship on a looping trajectory around the planet before re-entry and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii.

engine nozzles as needed to maintain the proper trajectory.Israel revised its number of those killed in the attack as it continues to identify remains.

As part of the proposal.this particular long-standing Hamas demand.

two Americans andtwo Israelis.Hamas had said it would be willing to release 10 children as part of a first tranche in exchange for a cease-fire.