SpaceX to Launch 1st Journey Moon by 2023

SpaceX's Starship will be the first passenger that will go on a voyage towards the moon in 2023.  It will be the first lunar journey by humans since 1972. Starship will not land on the lunar surface, instead, the craft will fly on a circumlunar around the moon traveling 238,900 miles away from Earth.

SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, is working around-the-clock towards enabling humans to become multi-planetary.

Engineers are in the initial phase of developing Starship, a massive stainless-steel, spaceship-rocket duo that will one day be capable of transporting one hundred passengers to the moon, Mars, and beyond.

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SpaceX teams are currently developing Starship in South Texas at a facility located in a small village called Boca Chica Beach. Engineers are manufacturing multiple stainless-steel prototypes of the craft, which are undergoing testing one after the other. Earlier this month, a first large-scale prototype of Starship, dubbed SN5, conducted a low-altitude test flight of 150-meters.

SN5’s successful flight showcased SpaceX’s engineers’ ability to develop a spacecraft that can launch and land flawlessly powered by a single Raptor engine.

Now, teams are preparing to test out the next Starship in line, SN6, which will fly on a similar trajectory, before taking a full-scale Starship on higher-altitude, 20 to 100 kilometer test flights. SN6 could take flight as soon as next week. Each test flight takes the company closer towards launching a Starship to orbit.