The new SpaceX rocket appears to come from a Woodpecker drawing

Starship looks like these comic ships. The prototype is part of Elon Musk's plan to make voyages to the moon by 2023

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Life imitates art, even out of the Earth Rafael Battaglia

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January 11, 2019, 9:03 pm – Published on January 11, 2019, 7:48 pm

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Life imitates art – even on the outside of the Earth. This Friday, Elon Musk posted on Twitter a photo of his company's new spacecraft prototype, SpaceX, a shamelessly inspired prototype of comic rockets and sci-fi movies from the 1950s.

called Starship, measuring 9 meters wide and is built on a base in Texas, United States. See below the photo shared by Musk:

According to the billionaire, the ship is a prototype that will be used for landings and takeoff tests. The final version, which will perform orbital flights on Earth and will be used for missions to the Moon and Mars, will have windows.

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Comparisons are not lacking for Starship, whose structure refers to clbadical animated rockets. The image above, for example, comes from an episode of Woodpecker. New Scientist British magazine of science and technology, compared the prototype of SpaceX to the rocket of Destiny to the Moon sci-fi film of the 1950s.

Next destination: Moon

SpaceX is currently completing its missions with the Falcon Heavy and Falcon 9 rockets. The Starship project is part of the company's plan to make more distant journeys into the world. coming years. Until November 2018, the new satellite called the Big Falcon Rocket (BRF).

Recall that last September, Musk announced the first pbadenger to visit the Moon with SpaceX. The Japanese entrepreneur Yasaku Maezawa bought the most exotic travel package existing and will be transferred to our natural satellite in 2023.

By his side, a team of artists, ranging from musicians to architects, will return to earth full of inspiration. .

The ship will be twice the size of the Falcon Heavy, which is 70 meters high. The prototype built in Texas has about 54 meters and seven engines – the final version will be 31. According to Musk, tests can begin within 8 weeks and the goal is for a prototype to perform orbital flights is ready at June.