SpaceX has taken the record for the tallest rocket ever built after stacking the Starship spacecraft onto its main Super Heavy rocket booster.
SpaceX set a world record this week for the tallest rocket ever assembled after it stacked and mated its Starship spacecraft onto the company’s main Super Heavy rocket booster, beating out the NASA Saturn V rocket that sent Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon. Starship Serial No.20 (SN20) was hoisted up by crane onto the main Super Heavy booster on the morning of Friday, August 6, outside of Boca Chica, Texas, as part of a stacking test in preparation for Starship’s first ever orbital launch later this year, per Space.com. There was no official SpaceX livestream of the testing, but the stacking was captured by both NASASpaceflight.com and Spadre.com’s 24/7 livecams of the testing site. The company, along with SpaceX founder Elon Mush, tweeted out some pretty impressive pics of the towering rocket from the launchpad as well.
