And the 13th guy
NASA today announced the next US lunar mission will use SpaceX’s HLS Starship to put American astronauts on the Moon’s surface. Elon Musk’s rocketry biz thus scoops a $2.89bn contract to put the first woman and the 13th man on the Moon as part of the American space agency’s Artemis program. NASA will use its own much-delayed SLS booster to launch four astronauts into orbit and make the trans-lunar injection burn – pointing them Moon-ward, basically – and then two of the ’nauts will transfer to SpaceX hardware to touch down. “This is an exciting time for NASA and especially the Artemis team,” said Lisa Watson-Morgan, program manager for HLS at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
