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TESMANIAN by  Evelyn Arevalo November 26, 2020

SpaceX’s ultimate mission is to make life multiplanetary. "It appears that consciousness is a very rare and precious thing and we should take whatever steps we can to preserve the light of consciousness,” the founder of SpaceX Elon Musk says, “Only now, after 4.5 billion years has that window been open. That’s a long time to wait and it might not stay open for long. I’m pretty optimistic by nature, but there’s some chance that window will not be open for long, and I think we should become a multi-planet civilization while that window is open,” he said in 2019 during a presentation where he unveiled a new design for SpaceX’s next-generation Starship launch vehicle.

Starship is under development at Boca Chica Beach in a small village located in the southernmost tip of Texas. It will be a massive launch vehicle, capable of transporting one hundred passengers and tons of cargo on long-duration voyages to Mars. The aerospace company has tested multiple stainless-steel prototypes of Starship at the SpaceX South Texas Launch Facility, where the first interplanetary spaceport is under construction. SpaceX plans to test launch as many as twenty prototypes before launching a vehicle to space.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it will perform an evaluation of SpaceX’s plans to continue Starship’s development. –“In July 2014, the company completed a years-long environmental impact statement. The document described how SpaceX would use the site as a commercial spaceport to launch a Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy rocket roughly once per month. Any major deviations from that plan must be approved by the FAA,” the administration announced in a press release on November 23. “SpaceX has informed the FAA that “it plans to apply for licenses for suborbital and orbital launches of its Starship spacecraft powered by the Super Heavy rocket at its launch site in Boca Chica, Texas.”

SpaceX offered the FAA very detailed information, including data regarding the amount of fuel tanks will have at the launch site, among other technical and environmental details. You can read the full 'Written Re-evaluation' documents in PDF format at the Administration’s website: FAA SPACEX

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