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Starships Are Meant to Fly

Monday morning is the current target for SpaceX’s Starship to have its first orbital launch. Starship will be the first vehicle to land humans on the moon in Artemis 3. You may be asking what was all that hullabaloo about Orion then? Well Orion is astronauts’ ride to the vicinity of the Moon at which point they will dock to Starship and those heading to the lunar surface will switch vehicles. Starship is an instrumental part of landing the first woman and person of color on the Moon and this launch will be a giant leap closer toward achieving that goal.

Starship fully stacked on Super Heavy booster at Boca Chica, TX via SpaceX Twitter
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