Starship Booster Catch Brings NASA, SpaceX Closer To Artemis 3 Moon Landing
In the more immediate future, nasa is paying spacex $4 billion to use starship to take astronauts to the surface of the moon during two upcoming missions in its artemis program. Artist’s illustration of the starship landing system on the moon. All of this is building up to the moon landing on artemis 3. At the beginning of 2024, nasa announced the delay. Today's successful catch marks a giant step toward using — and reusing — starship for missions ranging from satellite deployments to nasa's moon missions to.
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