SpaceX Plans Permanently Moonbase
April 17, 2024 by Brian Wang
SpaceX and Elon Musk are choosing to go to the moon. The moon orbiting and moon landing missions should be within this decade and they will make a permanently manned moonbase as well.
In the video, I describe the multiple moon related missions that SpaceX has and how easy it would be for SpaceX to make a moonbase much larger than the international space station.
Just leaving one Lunar Starship on the moon would provide lots of room for moonbase astronauts.
Starship will be bigger than the Great Pyramids, Elon Musk says
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The next generation of SpaceX’s Starship rockets will be taller than the Great Pyramids of Giza, Elon Musk has said.
The SpaceX boss is currently preparing for the next Starship test flight, which is set to take place this month, but is already looking ahead to future versions of the craft that he hopes will one day transport people to Mars.
In March, SpaceX delivered an uncrewed Starship rocket to orbit for the first time, however the craft did not survive reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere.
Measuring 120 metres tall, Starship is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, capable of producing 7.5 million kilograms of thrust – roughly double that of the world’s second most powerful rocket, Nasa’s Space Launch System (SLS).
Responding to a post to X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday, Mr Musk wrote that Starship “will probably approach ~140m (currently ~120m) over time”.
SpaceX Breaks NASA Shuttle's Launch Record
SpaceX has now completed 83 Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
By Ryan Whitwam May 9, 2024
https://www.extremetech.com/science/spa ... nch-record
Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center has a storied history. It was initially constructed to launch the massive Saturn V moon rockets but also served as the starting point for every Space Shuttle launch. More recently, NASA leased 39A to SpaceX for its commercial launches. SpaceX has gotten a lot of value from that lease. After the company's most recent Falcon 9 launch, it has broken the Space Shuttle's 39A launch record.
Aside from this numerical milestone, this week's Falcon 9 launch was typical for the company. The Falcon 9 lifted off in the early afternoon on May 8, carrying 23 new Starlink internet satellites. The Falcon 9 is capable of carrying up to 60 of the small first-gen Starlink nodes, suggesting Wednesday's payload features the enhanced V2 Mini satellites intended to fill the gap while SpaceX waits for its Starship megarocket to be ready.
