NASA chooses SpaceX to take humans back to Moon

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> For its Moon lander bid, SpaceX put forward its reusable Starship spacecraft, which is designed to carry large crews and cargo for deep space voyages, and land upright both on Earth and other celestial bodies.

> Prototypes of the vessel are currently being put through their paces at the company's south Texas facility, though all four versions that have so far attempted test flights have exploded.

I could be wrong, but I watched a test flight of Starship a few weeks ago that didn't explode. Am I crazy?

All have exploded, the one you are likely thinking of had a hard landing and exploded several minutes after touch down.

SN-15 is getting it's raptors currently, so this could change very soon. The main issue is the engines and some issues they need to work out there. Overall the hull will be ready before the engines.

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