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SpaceX signs deal to fly Italian experiments to Mars on Starship's 1st commercial Red Planet flights


"Get on board! We are going to Mars! SpaceX is now offering Starship services to the Red Planet."

"The payloads will include, among other things, a plant growth experiment, a meteorological monitoring station and a radiation sensor," ASI officials said in a statement today(in English; translation by Google). "The goal is to collect scientific data during the approximately six-month interplanetary flight phase that Starship will undertake from Earth to Mars and subsequently to the Martian surface." Company founder and CEO Elon Musk thinks the fully reusable vehicle is the breakthrough needed to make human settlement of the Red Planet feasible at long last.

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