20 0 2 0 00 km 12 5 1 2 50 mi Lo w Ea rth Or bb ii t LE O 2 0 00 3 5 7 90 km 1 25 0 22 180 mi MM ee dd i u m Ea rth Orb ii t ME O 35 79 0 k m 22 180 mi G e oss t ati onn a ryy E art h O rb i t GE O Technology for tomorrow Outlook Moon Distance 384 400 km 238 850 mi Balloon As far back as in 1960 Joseph Kittinger jumped from a balloon at an altitude of 31 km 19 3 mi in 2012 Felix Baumgartner from 39 km 24 2 mi and in 2014 Alan Eustace from 41 km 25 5 mi About 57 km 35 4 mi mathematically mark the end of the line the thin air at this altitude will no longer carry any balloon VSS Unity Start 2021 Crew 8 Destination outer space 110 km 68 mi Payload N A Liftoff thrust 310 kN carrier aircraft White Knight Two 120 kN The spacecraft built by Virgin Galactic is released by a carrier aircraft at an altitude of 15 km 9 3 mi and at a speed of 4 200 km h 2 600 mph is propelled vertically to an altitude of 110 km 68 mi At the boundary of outer space the engine is shut off the spacecraft tilts toward the Earth starts to sink and at an altitude of 16 km 10 mi starts its landing approach Ariane 64 Start 2021 Crew 4 Destination GEO Moon Payload 11 5 metric tons 12 7 short tons Liftoff thrust 14 000 kN The European launch vehicle is planned to start carrying satellites into outer space in 2021 For 2022 the liftoff of the space capsule Orion is planned which is supposed to take four American astronauts into a lunar orbit and in 2024 even to the Moon SpaceX Starship Start 2023 Crew 100 Destination Moon subsequently Mars Payload 150 metric tons 165 short tons three times as much as the Saturn V launch vehicle for the Apollo missions Liftoff thrust 74 000 kN Saturn V 34 000 kN SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is planning for people to start orbiting the Moon in the Starship starting in 2023 and subsequently colonizing Mars As with the previous Falcon rockets all components are supposed to be reusable Initial prototypes are currently in the making Beam me up Scotty Mr Spock 74

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