SpaceX Launches Starship 3rd Flight Test: IFT-3

SpaceX's Starship megarocket, the world's largest and most powerful rocket, lifted off at 1325 UTC from the company's manufacturing and test launch facilities near Boca Chica Beach, Texas. It successfully reached orbital speed for the first time Thursday in a historic third test flight from South Texas on (March24). Hundreds of Spring Break spectators, rocket launch chasers and SpaceX fans gathered along the southern shores of South Padre Island and surrounding areas to witness the third test flight about 8 kilometers south of the crowds.