Visitors to the Red Planet will reach it aboard SpaceX's Starship. 🚀
SpaceX is working toward the vehicle's first-ever orbital test flight, which the company wants to launch from its South Texas facility, called Starbase, at a quickly approaching date. However, for that launch to occur, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has to complete an environmental review of the activities at Starbase.
That assessment was originally supposed to be finished by the end of 2021, but the FAA has delayed it on several occasions. It's now targeting a May 31 submission.In 2018, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa confirmed that he booked the vehicle to do a round-the-moon trip for 2023. Meanwhile, NASA chose Starship to be the first crewed lunar lander for its Artemis program in 2025, its mission that aims to explore the moon's south pole.
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