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Jun 12, 2020

SpaceX aims to send the first crew to Mars aboard Starship in 2024

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

SpaceX is developing a massive stainless-steel Starship that will one day take one hundred passengers to Mars. The company aims to launch the fist Starship with cargo by 2022 and targets 2024 for the first crewed voyage to Mars. The first mission to Mars will consist of taking over 100 tons of cargo humans will need to survive on the rough Martian environment. Vital things like Oxygen and food will be transported to Mars first, so, when the first astronauts arrive, they will have more survival resources. Then, the second mission will transport the first humans to the Red Planet.

Yes— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 5, 2020

Jun 12, 2020

Russia’s space leader seems pretty bitter about SpaceX’s success

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

But he, himself, is clearly not gone. Earlier this week, Rogozin authored an op-ed in Forbes about Crew Dragon and Russia’s plans in space. Roscosmos has since published an English version, and in it Rogozin is far less complimentary of SpaceX and NASA.


“Elon Musk did not bring us down—he brought down his compatriots.”

Jun 12, 2020

My launch to Mars is now set for no earlier than July 20

Posted by in category: space travel

More time was allotted for the United Launch Alliance team to make repairs to ground system equipment. Liftoff atop an Atlas V rocket is set for 6:15 a.m. PT (9:15 a.m. ET, 1315 UTC). https://go.nasa.gov/2JvRbLq

Jun 12, 2020

NASA Moon Rover Books Ride to the Moon

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

Our newest water-seeking rover just booked a ride to the Moon’s South Pole.

Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic has been selected to deliver VIPER to the Moon in 2023 in preparation for future #Artemis missions to bring humanity to the lunar surface: https://go.nasa.gov/2YsxZFw

Jun 11, 2020

Elon Musk’s Top Priority Now Is Going to Mars and the Moon

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

After sending NASA astronauts to the ISS, SpaceX is focusing back on the Mars-colonizing Starship project.

Jun 10, 2020

What A Trump Loss In November Would Mean For NASA’s Lunar Return

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, space travel

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine tells me that despite the pandemic, the agency will do its utmost to meet the 2024 Artemis lunar return deadline.


“We continue to assess the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on our missions, but we strongly believe that we can still meet the goal of landing the first woman and the next man on the Moon in 2024,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told me via a headquarters’ spokesperson.

Yet NASA has also experienced shakeups in its human spaceflight directorate that could hinder meeting Artemis’ goals. Case in point, Doug Laverro, Associate Administrator of NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, departed less than a month ago.

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Jun 10, 2020

Early SpaceX Starship Will Stay as Moon Bases

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

Good idea. I wonder how much of his attention will shift from Mars to the Moon.


Elon has tweeted out that early Starships will stay on the moon as part of moon base alpha.

The SpaceX plan is what Nextbigfuture described in last months article “A Sky Full of Starships”.

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Jun 10, 2020

Why We Should Really Put a Particle Accelerator on the Moon

Posted by in categories: particle physics, space travel

In the March 1988 issue of Popular Mechanics, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov wrote an article describing his vision for humanity’s return to the moon.

Jun 10, 2020

Crew Dragon likely to support extended space station stay

Posted by in categories: engineering, health, space travel

WASHINGTON — SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is performing well enough on orbit to give NASA confidence that the mission can last until August, an agency official said June 9.

Ken Bowersox, the acting associate administrator for human exploration and operations at NASA, told an online meeting of two National Academies committees that NASA had been monitoring the health of the Crew Dragon spacecraft since its launch May 30 on the Demo-2 mission, carrying NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station.

NASA, he noted, had not set a length for the mission, saying they wanted to see how the Dragon performed in space. “The Dragon is doing very well, so we think it’s reasonable for the crew to stay up there a month or two,” he told members of the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and Space Studies Board.

Jun 9, 2020

SpaceX drops plans for Port of Los Angeles facility again

Posted by in categories: finance, space travel

WASHINGTON — For the second time in less than 18 months, SpaceX has abandoned plans to build a manufacturing facility at the Port of Los Angeles for its next-generation Starship launch vehicle.

In a March 27 letter obtained by SpaceNews, SpaceX notified the Port of Los Angeles that it was terminating a lease approved just a month earlier for a parcel of land at the port. News of the lease termination was first reported by the Los Angeles Times.

The letter, signed by Bret Johnsen, SpaceX’s chief financial officer, served as a 45-day notice of SpaceX’s intent to terminate the lease, making the effective end date of the lease May 11. The letter did not explain why the company was terminating the lease.