NASA’s Moon Plan Depends on 15 Starship Launches. There’s Just One Problem
Drastically increased launch cadence from SpaceX and NASA's other commercial partners is straining aging infrastructure at Kennedy Space Center, a new report finds.
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A new watchdog report has found that Kennedy Space Center, the premier spaceport for NASA and its commercial partners, isn’t ready to support increased super-heavy launch cadence. If the agency hopes to land humans on the Moon by 2028, it will need to fix that problem fast.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000776200","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"science","SECTION":"space","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"space","TAGS":"human-spaceflight,nasa,spacex,the-moon","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); NASA has tapped both SpaceX and Blue Origin to provide prospective crew landers for the Artemis 4 mission,…
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