(cont'd from yesterday's post)
If the time line works out as planned, SpaceX's spacecraft Starship will put two astronauts on the moon by 2024. That's 52 years after the last time we put people on the moon.
NASA's Artemis mission to the moon will begin paving the way to permanent habitations and an orbiting space station. The moon will be our best bet for launching missions to Mars. Elon Musk wants to build a thousand Starships to transport people and cargo for the purpose of establishing a colony there. Both Starship and its Super Heavy rocket will be fully reusable.
Watch an animation of what it will look like when Starship is launched to orbit while its booster (Super Heavy) turns around and heads back to earth for a safe landing:
Meanwhile, routine business continues. Today at 5:49 a.m. SpaceX launched four astronauts from Kennedy Space Center on a flight to the International Space Station. The pilot, Megan MacArthur, is the wife of Bob Behnke who flew SpaceX's very first crewed mission last year. They will dock with the ISS Saturday morning.
Watch the launch from pre-dawn Florida here.
from Business Insider
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