Jeremy Goodale tears up as he listens to his sister Jacqueline read a tribute he wrote about her as she testifies at his sentence hearing at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Fairfield.

The dark Starship upper stage sits atop the Super Heavy first stage booster.The flight plan calls for the Super Heavy first stage booster to fall into the Gulf of Mexico after propelling the Starship upper stage out of the lower atmosphere.

clearing the way for liftoff nearly seven months after the rocket suffered multiple failures and blew itself up during its maiden flight in April.SpaceX The (launch) license applies to all phases of the proposed operation.but SpaceX is not attempting recovery for this second test flight.

SpaceX The new staging system will be put to the test about two minutes and 40 seconds after liftoff when the first stage engines begin shutting down after boosting the rocket out of the dense lower atmosphere.most powerful rocket ever built.

which is spending billions for a variant of the Starship upper stage to carry Artemis astronauts from lunar orbit down to the surface of the moon.

SpaceX has implemented what company founder Elon Musk said were well over 1.when the company will attempt to boost the unpiloted Starship upper stage into space for the first time.

The dark Starship upper stage sits atop the Super Heavy first stage booster.Multiple test flights will be needed to demonstrate the reliability required for astronaut flights and its not yet clear how long that might take.

the Federal Aviation Administration granted SpaceX the required launch license earlier in the day.A new hot staging technique was implemented to begin firing the Starship upper stages six Raptor engines while still attached to the Super Heavy first stage.