SpaceX launches sixth test flight of Starship rocket from South Texas

President-elect Donald Trump flew in for the launch in the latest sign of his deepening bond with Elon Musk, SpaceX's founder and CEO.

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00:00President-elect Donald Trump joined Elon Musk to watch the launch of another SpaceX Starship

00:06rocket from South Texas.

00:11It's the sixth test flight of the rocket, which is the world's biggest and most powerful

00:15spacecraft.

00:18Unlike last month's successful test, however, the rocket's booster was directed to land

00:23in the Gulf of Mexico, rather than on the launch site.

00:29SpaceX and NASA hope that Starship will one day be used to get astronauts back on the

00:33moon and eventually on Mars.