"SpaceX's Starship launch: Low expectations, massive rocket, and cleared for takeoff"

SpaceX is set to launch its Starship vehicle, the most powerful rocket ever built, on Monday. The vehicle consists of two parts: the Super Heavy booster and the Starship spacecraft. If successful, it will travel about 150 miles above Earth’s surface, well into altitudes deemed to be outer space. Elon Musk has set low expectations for the launch, saying that as long as they get far enough away from the launch pad before something goes wrong, he would consider it a success. The success or failure of Starship is crucial to SpaceX’s future as a company and underpins the United States government’s ambitions for human exploration.