Updated 1:09 AM UTC: At the time of publication, SpaceX had not ruled out making one final attempt to launch the Starship SN10. Information technology completed a successful launch and landing, just the Starship exploded shortly thereafter.

Heavily pumped past Elon Musk's tweets, Dogecoin may be the get-go cryptocurrency to literally accomplish the moon following an aborted launch of a SpaceX ship.

The aerospace company attempted to launch its Starship SN10 vehicle today from SpaceX's facility in Boca Chica, Texas. The final version of the spacecraft will reportedly be capable of reaching the moon afterward refueling in World orbit, just the SN10 was supposed to stay within the atmosphere today for a high-altitude test.

Although the Starship's Raptor engines briefly ignited at approximately viii:15 PM UTC, the spacecraft failed to leave the surface subsequently SpaceX aborted the launch. A successful launch would mean another pace for the Starship to eventually be used for hauling cargo and eventually people to the lunar surface.

Though perhaps jokingly, Musk has repeatedly unsaid on Twitter that Dogecoin (DOGE) will be the offset cryptocurrency — or any currency, unless astronauts program to take cash with them — to follow in Neil Armstrong'southward footsteps. The SpaceX CEO may have unmarried-handedly been responsible for a number of price surges for the token, which has risen more than sixty% in the terminal thirty days to reach $0.0508 at time of publication.

To date, only twelve people have walked on the moon — all NASA astronauts in the 1960s and 1970s — but none of them reportedly carried any grade of currency with them. Apollo 11's Armstrong and Fizz Aldrin left backside a silicon disc containing letters from globe leaders, while Alan Shepard of Apollo xiv hit a couple golf assurance near the Fra Mauro crater.

In improver to beingness considered for NASA's Artemis program, which aims to send people to the moon by 2024, Starship is beingness promoted as a passenger spacecraft for those wealthy enough to pay for SpaceX's travel fees. Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has already purchased ix seats on the vehicle for a 2023 launch, offering to give away eight of them to prospective "crew members."