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Thread of the most epic images and videos from SpaceX Starship's launches 🧵 Image
1. Liftoff of Starship, the largest flying object ever made
2. Starship’s 33 Raptor engines in full power Image
3. Starship coasting in space

4. Liftoff in slow motion
5. Hot-stage separation in all its glory Image
6. View of the second Starship launch from Mexico
7. Starship crossed the Karman Line Image
8. View from atop the tower at liftoff
9. Starship Flight 3 preparing for launch Image
10. Starship Flight 3 static fire test Image
11. Starship re-entering Earth's atmosphere. Views through the plasma

12. Super Heavy Booster 9’s 33 Raptor engines power Starship toward a successful hot-staging on its second flight test on November 18, 2023. Photo by John Kraus. Image
13. Smooth separation

14. Starship through the clouds

15. Crowds watching the Starship launch from afar. Dreaming of Mars and becoming a multiplanetary species. Image
16. The scale of SpaceX’s Starship

17. Starship Flight 3 by John Kraus Image
18. Liftoff of Starship Flight 3 by John Kraus Image
19. Starship from afar by John Kraus Image
20. Per aspera ad astra! Image
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