On June 18, SpaceX brought the latest itration of ITSHIP Spacraft into the test stand for a static fire test for a test flight planned for June 29.Spaceship exploded in a fireballTake off yourself and the test in a special assembly.

The first reaction of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was a humor attemptWhen he posted on X“Only one scratch,” channel a line from Monty Python.

Later in A serious contributionMusk revealed the probable cause of the explosion: “Provisional data suggest that a nitrogen is a nitrogen [composite overwrapped pressure vessel] In the payload box, failed under the existing evidence. “

Peter Haag, astrophysicist and supporter of marketing space,Notes that the error is due to the problems of quality controlWith the specific component and not, as some suggest, an inherent design error in the Stars vehicle. In this case, the problem should be easy to fix.

What happens next? When will SpaceX will test another spaceship? How does the account from NASA’s Artemis program work to find the ambitions of Moon and Musk to find a settlement on Mars?

SpaceX has to repair the test stand and the surrounding infrastructure before being processed with a further test flight with a new version of the spaceship and the static feeling test, a risky dead, undresses. It also has to prepare the next starship for the flight.

Finally, the Federal Aviation Administration and other regulatory authorities have to fulfill that it understands and can understand the basic cause of the accident.

Opinions vary how long these tasks will take, but most of the good ranges from one month to two months. However, the accident on the test stand is only the latest in a series of mistakes that have received the Starship test program.

Hairthinks“Don’t make a mistake, remember; this is a serous setback. Company” has to bring stars back into the right course – but based on the past performance, we can expect you to do it. “

In fact, SpaceX mocked a number of failures in his early years from which it came back. Falcon 9 and the Falcon Heavy are the cheapest and most reliable start in the world. However, this quality was bought by failures that were stopped in the long term as parents of success. So it will like the spaceship.

The question that the spaceship became an operational vehicle was not a if, but a WHEN proposal. When the Starship is available, the SpaceX, which can recover from the latest accident and how it can meet a series of successive tests.

Musk wound likes to send the stars to Mars in the next transit window, which lasts from November 2026 to January 2027. Maybe you wear robots like the Humanoid Optimus. When SpaceX misses the window, the next 26 months later occurs.

In the great scheme of things, it does not matter whether we see boots on Marsboden 26 months later than the current timeline of Musk. Not so the return to the moon.

Artemis III Moon Landing is currently Planned for 2027. Even before the Starship account, this date was very double.

If the American could return to the moon in 2028, the event is not only far before a potential Chinese landing, but also the Presidency of Trump. The President Trump, always looking for a legacy enhancer, wants to find his presidents on the American surface. The Starship accident puts this view in danger.

It is not nice when NASA had a constant administrator who was respected by the aerospace community, experience flight, and has acquired the decisions for the Artemis program that could count. The schedule that is caused by the spaceship after the hiding place?

Trump has certainly committed the most hideous act of self -sabotage in political historyPull the nominationBy Javed Isaacman for the NASA administrator at the last minute. He does this with a replacement candidate.

Musk and his engineering team were still able to withdraw from the catastrophe. You have done it before. But it was a lot that Uppen spaceship is ready to open the moon, Mars and beyond human research.

Mark R. Whitington, who often writes about space policy, published a political examination of space research entitled “Why is it so difficult to return to the moon?“As well as”The moon, the Mars and beyond“And finally”Why is America going back to the moon?“He blogsCurmudgeons corner.