By Joey Roulette

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk’s SpaceX will try to launch its giant Starship rocket for a tenth time from Texas on Monday to overcome a streak of development setbacks and achieve several long-sought milestones essential to the Mars rocket system’s reusable design.

The 232-foot (71-meter) tall Super Heavy booster and its 171-foot tall Starship upper half – together taller than New York’s Statue of Liberty – sat stacked on a launch mount at SpaceX’s Starbase rocket facilities ahead of a 7:30 p.m. ET liftoff time.

A liquid oxygen leak at the Starship launchpad nixed a Sunday launch attempt, billionaire Musk wrote on X overnight, adding SpaceX would try again on Monday. It was unclear whether Musk intended to give a pre-launch Starship talk that had been planned but cance

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