Elon Musk’s SpaceX is reportedly delaying a planned unmanned Moon landing by its giant Starship rocket to June 2027. The manned version will then follow in 2028, according to reports. However, this schedule is somewhat later than originally sought by NASA which wanted the human landing by 2027.

The dates come from an article in Politico and refers to confidential internal documents (‘SpaceX proprietary information’).

The unmanned mission will follow an in-space transfer of all-important propellant from one Starship to another currently talked about for June 2026. Subject to this being successful then the unmanned mission will happen around June 2027, and a manned mission around September 2028.

Starship, despite recent successful test flights has yet to operate a full orbital flight.

SpaceX will reportedly submit a full planned schedule document to NASA in December.

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