SpaceX's Starbase Updates and Future Missions

TapTechNews August 22nd news, SpaceX officially announced that the second Starship launch tower at its Starbase (i.e., the South Texas Launch Site) has now completed the capping (completed the stacking of the entire tower body) work, and this process only took 41 days.

SpaceX also said that they are preparing to successively launch two Crew Dragon spacecraft in the next month, respectively performing SpaceX's 14th and 15th manned missions, namely the Polaris Dawn commercial spaceflight mission and NASA's Crew-9 mission.

Among them, the Polaris Dawn mission will complete the first commercial spacewalk by humans and break the record for the highest orbital altitude of a manned mission in low Earth orbit. For details, see the previous report of TapTechNews.

In addition, if Boeing cannot return its Starliner through its own ability, then it may use the Crew-9's Dragon spacecraft to rescue the two astronauts (return next year).

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