WASHINGTON — SpaceX is pushing back the first launch of the latest version of its Starship vehicle even as NASA is asking the company to accelerate work on a lunar lander version of the vehicle.
In a social media post early March 7, Elon Musk, founder and chief executive of SpaceX, announced that the first flight of version 3, or V3, of Starship would be "in about 4 weeks. " Four weeks from March 7 is April 4.
The statement came nearly six weeks after his previous prediction of Starship's next launch. "Starship launch in 6 weeks," he said in another post Jan. 26.
