SpaceX's Starship, the biggest rocket ever built, is poised to fly
last June, is to “Build 1000+ Starships to transport life to Mars. Basically, modern Noah’s Arks.”
The only thing missing, of course, are the astronauts. Once Starship has entered lunar orbit it will, as Watson-Morgan puts it, “loiter” there. A crew of four astronauts will then ride the Orion spacecraft, launched atop the SLS, out to the moon and dock with the waiting Starship. Two of the crew members will then transfer to Starship and descend to the surface.
Once Gateway is in operation, NASA intends to move away from exclusive reliance on Starship for its human landing system. The space agency is nowto build a second lander to provide services along with Starship—with Blue Origin and Dynetics the two contenders. In a statement at the time of the announcement in March 2022, Watson-Morgan said this would help the Artemis program advance as flights to the moon become more frequent and complex, providing flexibility and redundancy.
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