Space X's Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, has failed in its space adventure.
The Super Heavy rocket, the most powerful in history, exploded minutes after takeoff, although the SpaceX company has considered it a success.
The adventure of Elon Musk, owner of the company, will have to wait.
With the launch of the most powerful rocket in history on Thursday, Musk aimed to usher in a new era of space exploration.
The Starship and Super Heavy rocket were designed to configure a fully reusable space transportation system, designed to carry crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, and if possible, Mars.
In the video that accompanies the news, Rafael Clemente, an engineer and scientific disseminator specializing in astronomy and exploration of the cosmos, says that the launch was intended to give way "to the beginning of an entire space transport industry on a very large scale."
The contributor to EL PAÍS, founder of the Museu de la Ciència de Barcelona (today CosmoCaixa) and author of four books on artificial satellites and the Apollo program, explains that Starship was created with the mission of taking people to the Moon and Mars.
The key for this to be viable not only technically, but also economically, once again involves reusing the rockets as much as possible.
SpaceX has already revolutionized the aerospace industry with its recoverable rockets, which have made it cheaper to launch satellites and other devices.
Musk estimated that it would take him a couple of years to get his ship fully and quickly reusable.
The explosion this afternoon disrupts his plans.