SpaceX is preparing to test a prototype of a sleek, stainless steel spaceship that the company is developing to ferry passengers on trips to Mars. - NBCNewsMACH
SpaceX is preparing to test a prototype of a sleek, stainless steel spaceship that the company is developingThe prototype, a small version of the huge, 100-passenger Starship now in development, could undergo its first test soon,. The uncrewed vehicle, called Starship Hopper, is expected to take brief “hops” during the test, lifting off “only barely,” according to Musk.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared this photo of the Starship test flight rocket on Twitter on Jan. 10, 2019.Neither Musk nor the company specified a date for the test, to be conducted at the company's launch facility near Brownsville, Texas. But a on March 21 that he had signed an order to close roads around the area on two consecutive days so SpaceX could fuel the spaceship and “test the tank.”, a site that promotes tourism in South Padre Island, a resort town that is separated from the launch facility by a narrow waterway.
SpaceX intends to use the Starship as a reusable interplanetary transportation system that will launch atop a gigantic new booster known as the Super Heavy.to avoid extinction if runaway climate change or another cataclysm renders Earth uninhabitable. He said earlier this year that the vehicle could begin flying to the Red Planet in the 2020s., enabling the Japanese billionaire to become the first private passenger to make the trip. That flight is planned for 2023.
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