SpaceX boss Elon Musk December 1, 2020 -
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NASA has made its choice and it will be SpaceX.
Elon Musk's company is once again participating in the future lunar space station project by installing the LOP-G lunar outpost (Circumlunar Orbit Gateway), reports
Numerama
.
For that, it will be necessary to forward all the elements used for its construction.
In detail, SpaceX will take care of two modules, specifies NASA in its press release.
There is the PPE (Power and Propulsion Element), the power and propulsion element, which will provide the small space station with its energy supply and the means to move.
The Housing and Logistics Outpost (HALO) is also part of the mission for SpaceX.
It is in this module that the astronauts will take place.
Not before May 2024
The mission is not scheduled before May 2024 specifies NASA.
It is the Falcon Heavy rocket that will be requisitioned to send the material into space.
Located in orbit around the natural satellite, the lunar outpost LOP-G will serve as a base for robots and astronauts who will explore the Moon.
It is first American cosmonauts who will occupy the base before the international partners send their astronauts, recalls
Numerama
.
This is not the first contract given to SpaceX by NASA on this lunar project.
The American company was already chosen last March to supply the base with food, scientific equipment and spare parts.
The new SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will be responsible for this mission.
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