This photo from April 22, 2023 shows damage to the area around the launch pad in Texas of SpaceX's huge Starship rocket; a test launch ended with the rocket's destruction

STARBASE, United States: Flying chunks of concrete, twisted metal sheets, craters blasted deep into the ground: the thunderous power of SpaceX's first test flight of Starship -- the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built -- inflicted serious damage on its Texas launch site.