SpaceX calendar marked with big red circle for 'first Starship launch' this month
The Starship can generate about 16.5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, making it at least Musk's most powerful rocket. SpaceX plans to use it to transport astronauts, heavy payloads including space telescopes, and infrastructure to build future bases on the Moon and Mars.worth $2.89 billion to SpaceX to cover the cost of developing and launching a the Human Landing System , a spacecraft designed to hand human crews on the Moon.
That mission will see Starship launch the HLS, which will rendezvous out in space with crew in an Orion capsule launched separately by NASA and the agency's own SLS rocket. The HLS will land on Luna with its humans, then return to the orbiting Orion capsule, which will return with its crew to Earth. NASA also pledged another $1.15 billion in a second modified contract to further adapt the HLS to deliver cargo and send more astronauts to the Moon as the space agency looks toward establishing a long-term habitat on Earth's natural satellite.
"Returning astronauts to the Moon to learn, live, and work is a bold endeavor," NASA's administrator Bill Nelsonin a statement."With multiple planned landers, from SpaceX and future partners, NASA will be better positioned to accomplish the missions of tomorrow: conducting more science on the surface of the Moon than ever before and preparing for crewed missions to Mars.
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