WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Thursday said it proposed to NASA a simplified plan to send humans to the moon using its Starship rocket, as the agency presses its contractors to move more quickly toward beating China to the lunar surface this decade.
“In response to the latest calls, we’ve shared and are formally assessing a simplified mission architecture and concept of operations that we believe will result in a faster return to the Moon while simultaneously improving crew safety,” SpaceX wrote in a lengthy blog post on its website describing Starship progress.
(Reporting by Joey Roulette; Editing by Leslie Adler)
