Elon Musk not satisfied with ISS; tells SpaceX staff to focus on Starship for Moon & Mars

After successfully sending two astronauts at International Station in May, Elon Musk is all set to widen his horizons and achieve even more. As per a news source, Founder and CEO of X sent out an email to more than 7000 employees to t waste time post ir recent success. Musk wants to push his employees to focus on sending people deeper into with help of proposed X Starship.

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Elon Musk’s email to his employees

X's Starship is a proposed next-generation craft. It is a reusable rocket that is aimed at being able to land on Moon, and will able to take 100 people along with it at one time to Mars once such a capability and need is established. Musk wrote that y are in need to accelerate Starship's progress, as per accounts of those who have re te.

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About Starship and its various versions

Starship is a proposed rocket by X and its testing site is in Boca Chica in Texas. It was originally being developed by ar team in Florida as well. craft is designed to be reusable and will also be able to support both crew and cargo configurations. It will be able to take trips to Earth’s orbit. Deep destinations like Moon and Mars are also under list of places that Starship is targeted at being able to reach. As per a tech magazine, X has plans to replace models Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy with Starship. This can le to cost reduction as it will unify production lines and also have complete reusability.

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Starship work-in-progress is t first of its kind. development of Starship has witnessed many challenges and failures. While y h successful testing of its engine Raptor with proto Starhopper, y have come across failures during testing. Starship being assembled w is SN5, which is fifth proto of Starship. SN6 and SN7 are being constructed side by side.

Ar news source claimed that since astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are successfully placed at International Station after X launch, Elon Musk has w sent out a spark of urgency on Starship project. source also claims that Elon Musk h shared that he hopes to launch first crew to Mars in a Starship in next couple of years. He claims to be able to do this by mid-2024. It will be start of an effort to populate red planet as well, though it remains to be seen how he far he gets along in doing this.

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