Today In addition to today's announcement, NASA shared latest official render of SpaceX's Lunar Starship which slightly differs from last year's version:
Friday, April 16, 2021
NASA selects SpaceX Lunar Starship to return humans to the Moon
Today NASA announced it has selected SpaceX "to continue development of the first commercial human lander that will safely carry the next two American astronauts to the lunar surface" as part of the Artemis program. A year ago it was announced three contenders were selected to compete for this mission - SpaceX, Blue Origin's led "National Team" and Dynetics - and SpaceX revealed it is working for a lunar optimized Starship. Now we know SpaceX's proposal has won the race. In a milestone-based fixed-price contract SpaceX will be able to receive $2.89 billion to develop the Lunar Starship. The year when SpaceX needs to land humans back to the Moon is not specified yet.
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Were SpaceX not going to have fairly large landing jets 2/3 way up Starship to reduce Moon dust flying about?
ReplyDeleteThey still have. Just a lot more smaller ones bellow solar panel section in the render.
DeleteThis is how SpaceX will achieve this a good read!
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