SpaceX successfully launched its largest Starship model on a test flight, aiming for lunar missions under NASA's Artemis program, while also paving the way for commercial space travel.

SpaceX launched its biggest, most powerful Starship yet on a test flight Friday, an upgraded version that NASA is counting on to land astronauts on the moon .

The company shot off the roughly 400-foot-tall rocket from a new launchpad at its Starbase facility in southern Texas just after 6:30 p.m. ET Friday.