SpaceX is prepared to launch the biggest and most powerful rocket Thursday, working nonstop after the first shot at a test flight fizzled earlier in the week.
Reports said a frozen, stuck booster valve scrapped Monday's try.
The nearly 400-foot Starship was poised to blast off from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. SpaceX's Elon Musk gave 50-50 odds of the spacecraft reaching orbit on its debut.
The whole flight, if successful, will last just 1 1/2 hours with the rocket landing in the ocean where it will not be recovered.
The company plans to use Starship to send people and cargo to the moon and eventually Mars.
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