Musk admits Starship V3 launch date has slipped as Super Heavy booster rolls into place

SpaceX has rolled another Starship super heavy booster to the launch pad as the company's boss, Elon Musk, admits the first launch of Starship V3 had slipped.

The Super Heavy booster arrived at SpaceX's new Pad 2 in its Texas facility earlier this week, ready for more preflight testing and pad commissioning ahead of a launch attempt in April (at least according to a post made by Musk on his social media mouthpiece, X).

The billionaire wrote, "Starship V3 first flight in about 4 weeks," which means a launch next month. Unless Musk's emissions are, er, a little too optimistic.

On January 26, Musk posted, "Starship launch in 6 weeks," which means the test flight should have happened by now. It hasn't.

While there is sport to be had comparing Musk's promises to reality, NASA, for which SpaceX is to provide lunar landing services with ...