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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Space => Topic started by: Elderberry on March 28, 2020, 09:19:30 pm
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Space.com By Mike Wall 3/27/2020
SpaceX cargo craft will soon reach much farther out into the final frontier, if all goes according to plan.
The California-based company already flies cargo missions to and from the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA. Now, SpaceX has scored a contract to supply Gateway, the moon-orbiting space station that the agency aims to start building in 2022, agency officials announced Friday (March 27).
Gateway is a key part of NASA's Artemis exploration program, which seeks to establish a sustainable, long-term human presence on and around the moon by the late 2020s. The small space station will serve as a jumping-off point for sorties, both crewed and uncrewed, to the lunar surface.
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