Space companies need Starship's super-heavy heft to fly human habitats and mining equipment to the moon. The rocket just suffered a major setback.

Its last launch on Jan. 16 failed right after liftoff when the upper stage of SpaceX's uncrewed Starship rocket exploded minutes ... feet compared with the Saturn V rocket, which was 363 feet ...

During the Apollo program, the Saturn V rocket had a mass ratio of 23. This means that a fully-fueled Saturn V rocket was 23 times more massive than when all its fuel was used up. Now, there have ...

Thirty-three Raptor engines propelled the 404-foot-tall (123.1-meter) rocket through a clear afternoon sky with more than twice the power of NASA's Saturn V rocket, the workhorse of the Apollo ...