Where will such a huge budget for the US Space Force be spent on in 2021? Will NASA's budget increase be sufficient for a crewed Artemis moon landing in 2024? And why suddenly would Elon want a HORIZONTAL Starship Landing on the moon?!
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Where will such a huge budget for the US Space Force be spent on in 2021? Will NASA's budget increase be sufficient for a crewed Artemis moon landing in 2024? And why suddenly would Elon want a HORIZONTAL Starship Landing on the moon?!
Our fun narration of a resumed Moon Race between the US and Russia as motivation for the newest branch of the armed forces in the States, the US Space Force.
The largest portion of the US Space Force budget in 2021 would be spent on research and development. We speculate on a new Spacex Starship military version and Starship landing on moon with US space marines.
As for Spacex Starship news, SpaceX Boca Chica facility is starting to mass produce Spacex Starship test rocket. So SpaceX's location at Boca Chica really looks like turning into a real Starship Gigafactory.
SpaceX is winning in the Crew Dragon vs Starliner contest to send astronauts to the ISS from American soil again. Since the crew dragon capsule has already been transported to Kennedy Space Center, SpaceX's first human flight could take place as early as May 2020.
NASA SLS center core arrived at Stennis space center and will undergo a series of green-run tests over the next months.
President Donald Trump proposed an increase of NASA budget by 12.5% to $25 billion for the fiscal year 2021, which gives new hope for the development of NASA moon 2024 rocket and the Gateway to Mars.
The new NASA budget for a crewed moon lander could trigger an impressive SpaceX vs Blue Origin vs Boeing race in bringing the first humans to the moon again.
If Congress would approve NASA's increased budget request for 2021-2025, a manned Moon landing by 2024 within NASA's Artemis program might indeed become a reality. Either with the SLS / Orion / Gateway / small lunar lander architecture, or by chartering SpaceX Starship / Super Heavy.
SpaceX's Starship could land on the moon horizontally by using more powerful cold gas thrusters, in order to avoid hurling the lunar soil away due to extremely high speeds.
