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What is Starship for?
Starship is SpaceX's fully reusable spacecraft, designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, and Mars. This new Louisiana launch complex is crucial for increasing the frequency of Starship flights, which is key to SpaceX's long-term goals of making space travel more accessible and establishing human settlements beyond Earth.
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