NASA Chief Explains SpaceX Explosion To Congress – Next Launch In ~2 Months

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In a House hearing earlier today, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Bill Nelson shared details about SpaceX's plans for the Starship rocket. The former astronaut and senator from Florida outlined to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology that following SpaceX's fiery Starship rocket test last week, the company has informed him that it plans to make the next attempt in just two months from now. Administration Nelson's appearance before Congress was part of a hearing conducted for NASA's budget request for the fiscal year 2024, and he assured members that SpaceX is a "hardware rich" company that can afford to blow up rockets during tests.

Right off the bat, committee chairman Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK) started the conversation by asking Administrator Nelson about NASA's plans to land astronauts on the Moon and what key technologies might prevent it from meeting its timelines. In response, Nelson shared that one hurdle was a budgetary decision by NASA to reuse the avionics from the Orion ship for the Artemis 1 that flew last year for the ship for Artemis 2. This, according to him, has created a two-year delay between the two missions, which could have been avoided had NASA developed two sets of avionics.

The Administrator then shared estimates SpaceX provided him about what's next for the Starship program:

Now the big driver there is we know we've got Orion, the capsule, and the rocket, because we've already tested that. But we're going into lunar, polar, elliptical orbit, and we're gonna rendevous with a SpaceX lander. And the SpaceX lander