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“It utilizes Earth orbit refueling of liquid oxygen and liquid methane propellants. “It’s a single stage crewed landing system,” Watson-Morgan said. “SpaceX’s Starship is a fully reusable launch and landing system designed for travel to the Moon and other future destinations. “Today, I’m very excited, and we are all very excited, to announce that we have awarded SpaceX to continue the development of our integrated Human Landing System,” said Lisa Watson-Morgan, NASA’s HLS program manager at the Marshall Space Flight Center. NASA selected three industrial teams last year to work on lunar lander concepts, culminating in the agency’s selection of SpaceX to build the lander for the first Artemis Moon landing mission. The human-rated lunar lander, which NASA calls the Human Landing System, is one of the final major elements of the agency’s Artemis program to be developed. Under NASA’s plans, the astronauts will blast off from Earth on the agency’s heavy-lift Space Launch System rocket and fly an Orion capsule to the vicinity of the Moon, then transfer into the Starship for the final leg of the journey to the surface. NASA has selected SpaceX to build a spacecraft to land the first astronauts on the Moon since 1972, choosing Elon Musk’s space company over competing proposals from Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and the aerospace firm Dynetics, officials announced Friday.Ī derivative of SpaceX’s next-generation Starship vehicle will carry the astronauts to the lunar surface and launch the crew members back off the Moon. that deals with the political story behind Project Apollo.Artist’s concept of a Starship on the moon. "Washington Goes to the Moon": A two-part radio program produced by WAMU-FM in Washington, D.C. Lots of information about Project Apollo and anniversary sitesĪ cool site devoted to the 30th anniversary of Apollo 11 in 1999
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Links to full text and audio versions of Kennedy's speech, as well as other key speeches and documents Information relating to the decision to go to the Moon and Project Apollo that we hope you find useful. In honor of Kennedy's historic speech, below are some documents and other
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His goal was achieved on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong stepped off the Lunar Module's ladder and onto the Moon's surface. NASA's overall human spaceflight efforts were guided by Kennedy's speech Projects Mercury (at least in its latter stages), Gemini, and Apollo were designed to execute Kennedy's goal. Only the construction of the Panama Canal in modern peacetime and the Manhattan Project in war were comparable in scope. The decision involved much consideration before making it public, as well as enormous human efforts and expenditures to make what became Project Apollo a reality by 1969. Lens through which many historians now view Kennedy's speech. Thus the cold war is the primary contextual Very challenging technological feat, but an area of space exploration in which Other officials, he concluded that landing an American on the Moon would be a had a strong chance at achieving before the Soviet Union.Īfter consulting with Vice President Johnson, NASA Administrator James Webb, and He wanted to announceĪ program that the U.S. In addition, the Bay of Pigsįiasco in mid-April put unquantifiable pressure on Kennedy. Instead of orbiting the Earth, as Gagarin had done.
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The first American in space on May 5, he only flew on a short suborbital flight Space on April 12, 1961, greatly embarrassing the U.S.
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Sputnik shock of 1957, the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first human in Up to and overtake" the Soviet Union in the "space race." Four years after the In general, Kennedy felt great pressure to have the United States "catch A number of political factors affected Kennedy's decision and the timing Kennedy announced before a special joint session of Congress the dramatic andĪmbitious goal of sending an American safely to the Moon before the end of theĭecade. National Aeronautics and Space Administrationį.