Starship: Elon Musk's SpaceX prepares to launch the most powerful rocket system ever built

A static fire test of Starship on 9 February 2023 (left). On the right, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, is pictured on 1 December 2020 in Berlin, Germany.SpaceX; Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images

• SpaceX is in the final stages of testing the world's biggest and most powerful rocket.
• Elon Musk says the reusable Starship rocket could take its maiden flight in March.

Elon Musk is known for his boundless ambition, which seems to defy every limit put in front of him.

Space is no exception. The billionaire has set his sights high: he wants to launch the world's biggest, most powerful rocket, and then use it to take humans to the moon and then Mars.

After over 10 years of development, Musk announced SpaceX is ready to attempt the maiden flight of its Starship mega-rocket in March.

"If Starship is successful, I have little doubt that it's going to be the workhorse that will bring humans back to the moon and Mars" Olivier de Weck, professor of aeronautics, astronautics, and engineering at MIT, told Insider.

"It's not just a cool rocket project, but literally it has the potential to change the fate of humanity," he said.

Here are 14 facts you should know before Starship's first launch attempt.