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Space companies need Starship's super-heavy heft to fly human habitats and mining equipment to the moon. The rocket just suffered a major setback.
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Failed SpaceX test flight creates concern for returning humans to moon
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SpaceX rocket debris falls from sky in test flight failure
SpaceX rocket flight test goes very wrong, prompts investigation
SpaceX’s Starship had its eighth test flight Thursday evening, but ended in an explosion, the Associate Press reported. According to SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk in 2002, the super heavy booster, which gives the initial thrust,
The original assumption was that commercial lunar landings would be, to use a basketball term, “shots on goal” with some of them failing.
If all goes according to plan, the Athena lander will touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6.
SpaceX said the rocket experienced a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” during its ascent burn—the same result as its previous test flight.
SpaceX has successfully launched Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander toward the moon in the IM-2 mission. Watch the launch here.
The commercially and privately constructed Athena spacecraft is returning data to NASA scientists on Earth, they announced Thursday. The craft did not land exactly as expected and Its exact location is unclear.
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