NASA gives SpaceX permission to land a second man on the moon with Starship in 2027

A year and a half ago, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

) stated that during the Artemis lunar programSpaceX's Starship will be used to land people on the Moon. The Artemis III mission is planned for 2025, but it is already known that Starship will participate in Artemis IV.

What is known

In early autumn, NASA began collecting applications forcreation of landing modules that will be used in future manned lunar missions. In order not to depend entirely on SpaceX, Elon Musk's companies were even banned from participating in the competition.

However, officials still found a way to attractSpaceX. They did it using an existing contract. NASA has officially confirmed that the Starship spacecraft will be used on the Artemis IV mission, which is scheduled for 2027.

SpaceX has developed a spaceshipfor flights to Mars and the Moon. Now she is actively conducting tests in the hope of making the first test test flight before the end of this year. Although the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has not yet approved the flight.