The brand new Snapchat space series has just been launched by Futura: Swipe Into Space! On the program, answers to the many questions we ask ourselves about the cosmos. For this sixth episode, discover SpaceX’s Starship rocket and its extraordinary capabilities!
Notice to lovers of SnapchatFutura launches a brand new children’s series on space and the sciences of theUniverse : Swipe Into Space. Through dynamic episodes of approximately three minutes, dotted with grandiose illustrations and face-to-face sequences, you will discover many mysteries of the cosmosof the edge of the universe to the formation of our planet.
Each week, Thibault, from the editorial staff of Futura, will answer one of the many questions that we could ask ourselves. VSow was formed the Moon ? What is the Starship, this rocket new generation that promises to send men to Mars? How does a spacewalk take place? What fate awaits our Universe? What if we could travel to the speed of light ?
In this sixth episode: the Starship and the colonization of the Solar System
After observing the sky for centuries, humans decided to do more: and let’s go for the colonization of the Solar System! First, they went to the Moon, with the Apollo 11 mission which saw the first steps of Man on our satellite. But today, the new objective is none other than the colonization of the planet Mars. The billionaire and holder of the private company SpaceX, Elon Musk, makes no secret of it: he intends to send humans there in the next decade! To do this, he relies on his new generation rocket: the Starship!
Unveiled in 2017 by the company Space X, this launcher will be reusable unlike all launchers built so far! The first tests took place in 2018 with the very first prototype: the Starhopper. Many failures have occurred, but not only! In May 2021, the SN15 prototype finally managed to land smoothly for the very first time! Built in the open, it should bring humans back to the Moon by the end of the decade as part of NASA’s Artemis program. But this would only be the first step: in the long term, it is indeed the Red Planet, Mars, which is targeted. To find out more about this technological jewel and all the anecdotes surrounding it, you will have to go to Swipe Into Space !
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On the program of this issue: a dive into the heart of 4 scientific themes that will mark 2022, from the Earth to the Moon:
- What mysteries does the Moon still hide from us?
- Will we soon be able to cure everything thanks to genes?
- How to feed the world without destroying it?
- Can artificial intelligence become truly intelligent?
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