SpaceX Starship Base adds new tower, one step closer to Musk's dream of Mars

According to news from this site on August 22, SpaceX officially announced that the second starship launch tower at its Starbase (South Texas launch site) has now completed the topping (complete stacking of the tower body). This process only It took 41 days. fenye

SpaceX also stated that they are preparing to launch two manned Dragon spacecrafts within the next month to carry out SpaceX’s 14th and 15th manned missions respectively, which are the "Polaris Dawn" commercial space missions. and NASA's Crew-9 mission.
Among them, the "Polaris Dawn" mission will complete mankind's first commercial spacewalk and break the record for the highest orbital altitude of a manned mission in low-Earth orbit. Details can be found in previous reports on this site.
Also, if Boeing is unable to bring its Starliner back home on its own, it may be possible to use Crew-9’s Dragon spacecraft to bring the two astronauts out (to return next year).

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