Elon Musk to attempt Starship launch in March. Elon Musk, the billionaire chief of SpaceX said in a tweet on Saturday that SpaceX may attempt a Starship rocket system launch in March.
“If remaining tests go well, we will attempt a Starship launch next month,” Musk said, in a response to a user’s tweet about Starship.
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A March launch attempt seemed highly plausible, Musk had said in January, adding that there was a “real shot” at launching Starship in late February.
Since last year, SpaceX has been planning the first orbital launch of its gigantic Starship, a crucial test flight for its plan to send NASA astronauts to the moon.
Previously, SpaceX delivered another quartet of astronauts to the International Space Station and sent a crew including a Russian cosmonaut, part of a US-Russia partnership that has endured despite wartime tensions in Ukraine.
The SpaceX launch is the latest sign of long-lasting cooperation between Russia and the United States space partnership. The company’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with two American astronauts, a Japanese astronaut, and a Russian cosmonaut.
The Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon spacecraft took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at noon with two NASA astronauts, Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, as well as Koichi Wakata from Japan and Anna Kikina from Russia.
