Hello everyone and welcome to our channel. Today we'll tell you about the SpaceX moon landing
revealed by Elon Musk. Let's get started. NASA is making steady progress toward its goal of landing
on the moon again after 50 years and SpaceX is an important part of this effort. Elon Musk has
said that the first launch of SpaceX's huge Starship mega rocket system, which is the most
powerful rocket in the world and will carry cargo and people to the moon, Mars and other
places will happen in April. The super heavy is a mix of a rocket and a spaceship that have both
been tested and worked well by SpaceX. The launch of Starship, which everyone is looking forward
to, will show if NASA's Artemis Moon program is on the right track or not. In 2021, NASA will
give SpaceX a $2.9 billion deal to send Starship to the moon to help the space agency land
people there for the first time since 1972. Starship was given a contract to take part
in the Artemis Form Mission in November of last year. Brendan Rousseau, a teaching fellow of
space economy at Harvard Business School, says that it will not only be a test of the company's
flagship vehicle, but also a very important test of the risk that NASA is taking by letting
private actors get involved in the development process. This test is likely to happen in the next
few months. During an interview with Insider, he said that Artemis had a lot of different parts
including the plans for the spaceship. Unlike the Apollo trips, NASA's rocket
will not take astronauts all the way to the moon's surface. The spacecraft that will land on the moon will be a starship
which will launch separately from the Orion spaceship. The crew will fly to the moon's orbit on NASA's Orion spacecraft
which will be attached to the top of NASA's new space launch system, or SLS
Space says that when the mission is over the crew will be moved from Starship to Orion for the trip back to Earth The crew will then leave Starship when it in lunar orbit Because of this NASA wants a rocket made by SpaceX which the agency hired to make the rocket
to be the one that will land people on the moon for the first time since 1973
Rousseau said, if you're Bill Nelson, the head of NASA, you're really paying attention to the test launches of Starship
because it's now an important part of your infrastructure. Starship is now an important part of your system
NASA's reliance on Starship was made clear, according to NBC, when Nelson asked Gwen Shotwell, the president of SpaceX
if Musk's purchase of Twitter would change the company's goal with NASA. Nelson's questions showed how much the government body depends on SpaceX
Shotwell told him there's nothing for him to worry about. NASA has helped SpaceX in more ways than just the Artemis 3 mission
SpaceX will build the lander for the Artemis 4 mission. This will cost NASA an extra $1.2 billion to design a way for the rocket to dock at the lunar gateway that NASA wants to build
I think it shows that NASA believes SpaceX will be able to get Starship up and going by the deadline
Rousseau said, it's pretty amazing when you think about the fact that we haven't even done a full orbital flight test of the system
It's clear that it's pretty amazing. Rousseau says that SpaceX's success was part of NASA's big plan to involve private companies in its next flights
When the shuttle program ended in 2011, NASA changed the way it thought about research
Rousseau says that instead of putting all of its efforts into making a rocket from start to finish
the government started giving more money to private companies that could handle the research work
while competing for lower prices and better efficiency. He said that this method was dangerous, but that it had paid off now extremely well
He went on to say that it gave birth to companies like SpaceX Blue Origin and all these other companies This NASA investment along with the fact that NASA is the customer is the only reason they still in business
More than just SpaceX can gain from this method. NASA's given 14 private companies the job of sending different things to the moon of the next few years
This year, three of these companies are set to send a payload. There's no good way to figure out how much Starship will cost
but Musk has said that each launch may cost less than $10 million in a few years
SpaceX also wants to make Starship completely recoverable, which would let it take off more than once a year
Rousseau said it could fundamentally change how much we put into space and why, as well as how much it costs
Rousseau says that if SpaceX could do 50 launches in one year, they would send more stuff into space than has been sent into space since Sputnik
This is only about a third of how many launches SpaceX wants to do each year
On the other hand, the taxpayers are paying a lot for NASA's SLS rocket
Since the program started in 2006, $50 billion has been spent on its development
Also, the 23-story rocket didn't take off until 2016, six years after its first planned launch date
Each SLS launch costs more than $4 billion, and each time NASA has to build it from scratch
so it won't get any cheaper anytime soon. All of this means that NASA's SLS is not as good as SpaceX's new rocket
If NASA thinks SpaceX can do what it says it will do, Why does it keep funding its own SLS rocket
Russo says that NASA's mega rocket is a little bit of an outlier and the agency's big move toward working with businesses
If you look at how much it cost, how long it took to make, and how many problems it's had
it might be proof that it's best to buy services from the private sector, he said
Rousseau thinks that SLS long investment may have been more of a political risk than a business decision Some cynics would say that the real reason NASA wanted to build a big rocket was to create jobs in their districts he said
Rousseau says that even so, SLS is expected to stay NASA's main spacecraft, at least for
the Artemis missions. The SLS is better for the Artemis mission because it's made just for that mission
It was made to go with the Orion Spaceship. It was designed to do this job, he said
It looks like they're going to stick with this friend. now. Rousseau says there may be increasing pressure on NASA to use their rockets for tasks other
than Artemis if SpaceX can prove that Starship is less expensive and more effective
A spaceship is the only thing that will let NASA land on the moon
Greg Autry, a visiting professor at the Institute for Security, Science and Technology at Imperial
College London says, we must have more than one way to get on and off the moon
He said that Starship was extremely promising, but he also said that it would have to get past
a lot of problems before it can make its first trip into orbit. Some of these are refueling the
lander while it's in orbit, putting life-supporting equipment on the ship and getting the dust
control plan for landing on the moon just right. If any company can do it, it's SpaceX, Autry said
But the usual program delays, which Starship has also had, are a real worry on the critical
path to landing. In addition to Starship, NASA needs another lunar lander for mission assurance
system redundancy, and eventually to guarantee economic competition, he said. Rousseau agreed that NASA doesn't like the idea of having only one winner
Last September, the agency said it would let rivals bid on a deal to buy a second lunar lander
for future missions. Hopefully, we'll see more information about this in the near future
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