Starship is the largest rocket ever built. Elon Musk hopes it will one day fly humans and other species to Mars, but environmentalists say it’s doing damage to the local habitat around the Texas launch site. Verónica Gabriela Cárdenas for NPR
Verónica Gabriela Cárdenas for NPR
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Standing before a crowd of onlookers and journalists in South Texas in February of 2022, Elon Musk made the case for going to Mars. His company SpaceX would build a rocket called Starship. It would be the largest ever built and it would launch frequently — as often as three times