NASA Transition to Starship

SLS for now, Starship for keeps

Currently Starship appears on course to achieve its development goals i.e. lift 200 tonnes of payload to Low Earth Orbit (LEO), then refuel and send that payload to anywhere in the inner solar system. By comparison, the Block 1 version of Boeing’s Space Launch System (SLS) can launch 27 tonnes to the moon, hopefully rising to 35 tonnes for the future 1B…