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What does SpaceX plan to do in the future?
SpaceX expects to reach low Earth orbit in 2021, followed by routine flights and demonstration of in-orbit refueling in 2022. A tourist mission around the Moon is planned for 2023. SpaceX has the goal of sending the first uncrewed Starship to Mars in 2024.
Is NASA saving money with SpaceX?
Here’s one: NASA saved at least $548 million, and perhaps more, thanks to just one contract with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Last week, the US space agency tapped the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket to launch a space probe to one of Jupiter’s moons, Europa, in 2024.
How much funding does SpaceX get from NASA?
NASA announced on Friday that it had awarded a contract to SpaceX for $2.9 billion to use Starship to take astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface of the moon. The contract extends NASA’s trend of relying on private companies to ferry people, cargo and robotic explorers to space.
Are NASA and SpaceX working together?
SpaceX has been working closely with NASA experts during the HLS base period of performance to inform its lander design and ensure it meets NASA’s performance requirements and human spaceflight standards.
What does SpaceX do for NASA?
SpaceX is private contractor that provides services to NASA. NASA pays them to ferry cargo to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services program.
What time does SpaceX launch to the International Space Station?
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft stand ready for liftoff at NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A for SpaceX’s 22nd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. Launch is targeted for 1:29 p.m. EDT. Photo credit: NASA
What time did SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lift off?
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon cargo capsule lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 3, 2021, on the company’s 22nd Commercial Resupply Services mission for the agency to the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 1:29 p.m. EDT. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Where is SpaceX’s Dragon rocket launching from?
An up-close view of the Dragon spacecraft atop SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida ahead of the company’s 22nd commercial resupply services launch to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA