SpaceX Starship Test Flight Coming on DOGE Day? Elon Musk Teases Incoming Launch

SpaceX CEO and Dogecoin enthusiast Elon Musk announced on Tuesday that the company is targeting April 20 for a test flight of its Starship rocket.

As it happens, April 20th (4/20) is celebrated by the Dogecoin community as “Doge Day.”

• April 20th has been declared Doge Day by the Doge community again in 2021 with the aim of driving the currency’s value to new highs. April 2021 was when the Doge jumped to new highs of around $0.30, before rising to $0.70 in early May.
• “The team is working around the clock on many issues. Maybe 4/20, maybe not,” Musk tweeted about the launch on Tuesday. The launch was originally scheduled for April 17 by Musk chirp About freezing of the “pressure valve”, which delays take-off.
• However, some in the Dogecoin community believe that this is part of Musk’s “brilliant plan” to launch a rocket on Doge Day.

🚨 Carry your dog 🚨

The launch of the spacecraft was moved to April 20, Dog Day! dogecoin

Rumor has it that all of this is part of @tweet Ingenious plan.
Is this his way of partying?

How will this important event affect the markets?# Oh, Lord #retweet pic.twitter.com/7tkK0HjON9

– Bitget (@bitgetglobal) April 19, 2023

• The launch of the biggest rocket on the planet is delayed for memes, chirp Dogecoin Graphic Designer, DogeDesigner Monday, “Everyone hail the meme-Lord.”
• Dogecoin Foundation member Marshall Hainer also posted a simple “420” possibly referring to Doge Day.
• In 2021, SpaceX helped Plan A Dogecoin-funded rocket has launched to the Moon, farther from Earth’s surface than any other CubeSat has ever reached. The mission was named “DOGE-1”.