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On April 27, SpaceX plans to share starship flight test data with NASA, thus continuing to promote the design of the Artemis 3 lunar landing program. "this helps our risk control management," NASA officials said.

NASA officials said in a recent interview that NASA was eagerly waiting for SpaceX to successfully develop a starship for the moon landing program.

On April 20, SpaceX tried to launch a new starship and a super heavy rocket booster. Although the entire system is not fully in orbit, company founder Elon Musk (Elon Musk) stressed that SpaceX is adjusting the new launch date as soon as possible.

NASA's Artemis 3 lunar landing program will send astronauts to the lunar surface as early as December 2025. Mature space experience is essential for starships to complete this mission.

The success of the mission to the moon depends on NASA's Artemis 2 mission, which plans to send four astronauts around the moon later next year.

"We have to use our team's information to help SpaceX," Lisa Hammond, deputy project manager for NASA manned landing systems, said in a recent interview. "they sometimes give back some information and ask questions."

NASA is making specific requests to SpaceX to prepare starship ships, Hammond said. "the most important part is the crew," she added, adding that NASA has more than 60 years of human space flight experience and can be shared among different space systems.

SpaceX is also collecting its own space data. The company not only undertakes the mission of transporting astronauts to the International Space Station in manned dragon spacecraft, but also carries out a variety of private space missions. For example, Axiom Space's private space mission Ax-2 is about to launch, sending four civilian astronauts to the International Space Station.

Hammond stressed that SpaceX had been "doing a very good job" and kept NASA informed of the progress of starship design. NASA has also been asking about indicators such as engine performance design, manned cabin conditions and emergency exits, she said.

These conversations are "necessary so that we can have confidence in the design and certification of the spacecraft, and then know that we have a safe manned spacecraft," she said. "

Nicole Williams, head of NASA's manned landing system office and head of manned module planning, said the Artemis 3 mission planned to use multiple spacecraft to send astronauts to the lunar surface. They will launch in the Orion spacecraft carried by the space launch system rocket and rendezvous with the starship in lunar orbit.

"the crew will enter the starship from Orion and land on the surface of the moon, and it's exciting just to talk about it," Williams said. After landing on the moon, the astronauts will stay for about a week before returning to the Orion spacecraft.

SpaceX has promised to share data on starship flight tests and continue to promote the design of the Artemis 3 mission, which will also help NASA design the landing mission, Hammond said.

"it helps our risk control management, helps us understand where we want to go, and maybe do some independent analysis of these things to help them mature faster and better," Hammond said. "

After the starship launch test on April 20, NASA director Bill Nelson (Bill Nelson) expressed his support for the flight test: "every great achievement in history has a certain degree of risk, because great risk can bring great rewards," he tweeted hours after the launch test. "look forward to everything SpaceX has learned, to the next flight test, to the future."

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