SpaceX readied its huge Super Heavy-Starship rocket for a second launch try on Monday to kick off the program's 10th test flight, a milestone mission to put corrective upgrades through their paces after three catastrophic failures earlier this year.

A successful flight would help restore confidence in the gargantuan rocket amid growing concern a moon lander variant being built for NASA may not be perfected in time for a planned 2027 landing and possibly not before the Chinese mount their own piloted moon mission at the end of the decade.

But in the near term, SpaceX's goal was to get the Super Heavy-Starship flying again after multiple back-to-back failures.

A launch attempt Sunday was called off because of trouble with a ground system at the company's Starbase flight test and manuf

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