NASA is revising its moon-landing plans, reducing Boeing’s (BA) role while elevating SpaceX’s Starship rocket to do the job of propelling astronauts to lunar orbit, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg’s Loren Grush, Ed Ludlow and Julie Johnsson. Under the original plan, Boeing’s Space Launch System rocket would have launched a crew of four riding inside the Lockheed Martin-built (LMT) Orion crew capsule to the moon, but under a new proposal, SLS would no longer be used to boost Orion close to the moon and instead Starship and Orion would dock in Earth orbit, giving Starship the pivotal role of propelling the capsule to the moon’s orbit, the report stated.
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