SpaceX INSANE NEW Starship To Finally Land On Moon!!

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SpaceX has finally landed the contract for NASA’s Project Artemis’ Human Landing System but how exactly is Musk’s company going to get NASA’ astronaut to the surface of the moon?
After a long hiatus, NASA is ready to resume sending people to the moon. To achieve this, the space exploration agency is setting up Project Artemis but is doing things a bit differently. Rather than developing the vehicle to moon completely in house, it is turning to commercial companies for a key component of Project Artemis.
NASA’s plan is to send the astronauts towards the moon using its own space capsule, Orion, blasted away by its own rocket, known as Space Launch System or SLS. Once the Orion arrives in the moon’s orbit, it will link up with a lunar lander which the astronauts will transfer to and be lowered to the surface of the moon.
Some time in the future, the Orion capsule will dock with the Gateway, a small space station orbiting the moon, before being transferred to the human landing system.
The lunar lander will stay on the moon while the astronauts do their job for about a week and take them back to the Orion space capsule that would be waiting in orbit for the trip back home.
The lunar lander is what NASA is contracting out. If you have watched our previous videos, you would know SpaceX won the 2.89 billion dollar contract to build the lander, beating two other contestants that included Alabama-based Dyenetics and a coalition known as National Team that consisted of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper.
In a surprise move, NASA decided to go all in with SpaceX, rather than its usual practice of awarding the same contract to two companies to encourage competition and prevent redundancy.
The main cited reason was money, as NASA is struggling to get the required funding for the human landing system from Congress. It simply does not have enough money to have two different companies working on the same project as it got only 850 million dollars out of the 3.4 billion dollars it requested.
Other reasons included the technical superiority of SpaceX’s proposal, despite being the least expensive. More on that later.
Blue Origin is currently involved in a two prong attack on NASA’s contract award, seeking redress before the US Government Accountability Office and also pushing a bill amendment in congress that will give NASA up to 10 billion dollars to spend on the human lander.
Let’s look in more details at the contract signed by SpaceX and the ingenious way it plans to execute it.
First, SpaceX may end up spending as much of its own money as NASA before the project is completed.
Surprised? Well, the terms of the agreement is markedly different from the ordinary purchase of a module from a company.
NASA opted to pay a commercial space company a fixed price to build a lander, but the lander will belong to the company, in this case SpaceX. The advantage to NASA is that the price is fixed and SpaceX will be responsible for any overshot in budget, which will likely happen.
NASA will then purchase ongoing landing services from SpaceX in the future, with the money already paid factored in of course.
In the first phase of the contract, NASA had given money to the National Team, SpaceX and Dyenetics to develop their proposals before selecting SpaceX.
If SpaceX manages to complete the project under budget, that simply means more profit for it.
Of note is that this is not the first time NASA is doing this as it has used the same model to transport its astronauts and their cargo to the international space station.
It would appear SpaceX is taking on a lot of risk by accepting this contract but is definitely not the case.
First, SpaceX is modifying Starship, its reusable spaceship rocket system combo, which means NASA’s money isn’t going into building something from the scratch.
SpaceX is designing the Starship to be multipurpose; capable of taking colonists to mars, astronauts to the moon and zipping from one point to another here on earth. It is also designed to launch and land upright, rather than ending up as debris scattered at sea.
SpaceX is still perfecting the landing upright part, with several prototypes bursting into flames as they tried to complete the complex maneuver required to land on their legs.

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