STARSHIP – The Journey to Space
Starship is designed by SpaceX, Starship is a spacecraft and super-heavy booster rocket meant to act as a reusable transportation system for the crew and cargo to the Earth’s orbit, Moon and Mars. The spacecraft is designed to be a fully reusable vehicle that can support both crew and cargo configurations that can make trips to both Earth orbit and deep space destinations including the moon and Mars when paired with the forthcoming SpaceX Super Heavy rocket booster.
Starship is planned to eventually be built in at least these operational variants. Space ship: a vehicle to transport and place spacecraft into the orbit, Tanker, Lunar-surface-to-orbit transport, Reusable launch system, Space tourism, Mars colonization, Multiplanetary transport, Intercontinental transport.
SpaceX will send three tourists on a 10-day trip to the International Space Station sometime in late 2021.spacex is working on the space tourism in Starship. SpaceX announced that it is working with space tourism company Space Adventures to send up four private citizens into orbit around the Earth sometime in late 2021 or early 2022.
SpaceX starship on 04/08/2020 successfully completed a flight of less than a minute of the largest prototype ever tested of the future rocket starship, which they can use to colonize Mars. Together the Starship spacecraft and the Super Heavy rocket create a reusable transportation system that is capable of on-orbit refilling and leverages Mars natural H2O and CO2 resources to refuel on the surface of Mars.
SpaceX decided to send a starship to Mars, with cargo only, by 2022. SpaceX wants to send missions of people to Mars using a starship by 2050.
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