SpaceX could land astronauts on the moon in 2024, Elon Musk says
Elon Musk doesn't think NASA's 2024 moon-landing goal is out of reach.
The space agency is working to get people back to the moon via its Artemis program, which aims to establish a long-term, sustainable human presence on and around Earth's nearest neighbor by the end of the 2020s.
In 2019, the Trump administration directed NASA to make the first crewed Artemis landing by 2024. Experts have generally viewed that target as overly ambitious, and it's unclear whether the timeline will hold under President Joe Biden. But Musk, SpaceX's billionaire founder and CEO, thinks it is indeed achievable with the company's Starship deep-space transportation system, which NASA recently selected as Artemis' crewed moon lander.
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https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-astronauts-moon-2024-elon-musk
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