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FAA Grounds Musk's SpaceX Rocket

After a probe into April's mid flight explosion of the SpaceX starship rocket, the FAA announced today that it should remain grounded until work is completed. The agency cited 63 correction actions it needs to take before it can be approved for another flight. But just this week, the company's Ceo Elon Musk said in a post starship is ready to launch awaiting FAA license approval along with a video of the rocket on the launch pad. After the FAA announcement today, a post from SpaceX read testing development flight hardware in a flight environment is what enables our teams to quickly learn and execute design changes and hardware upgrades to improve the probability of success in the future. We learned a tremendous amount about the vehicle and ground systems during the starships first test flight.