NASA is preparing to reopen its contract for a human lunar lander as SpaceX’s Starship development lags behind schedule. This decision is driven by the need to ensure the Artemis program’s moon ...
Though SpaceX was awarded the lunar lander contract in 2021, NASA recently indicated its intention to consider other options from Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin. Under its Artemis campaign, NASA is ...
The plan hinges on SpaceX being able to demonstrate that Starship can refuel in orbit. NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX now worth $4.4 billion to develop a lander capable of transporting humans to ...
NASA's Artemis campaign is the agency's ambitious campaign to return Americans to the surface of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Starship, the approximately 400-foot megarocket that ...
NASA's Artemis campaign is the agency's ambitious campaign to return Americans to the surface of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Starship, the approximately 400-foot megarocket that ...
NASA’s highly anticipated Artemis III mission involves returning astronauts to the lunar surface in the first crewed touchdown since the final Apollo mission in 1972. NASA is currently targeting 2027 ...
WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX on Thursday said it proposed to NASA a simplified plan to send humans to the moon using its Starship rocket, as the agency presses its contractors to ...
Illustration of a SpaceX Starship lunar lander on the moon. Credit: SpaceX PARIS — NASA safety advisers say they doubt the lunar lander version of SpaceX’s Starship will be ready to support the ...
Despite the Trump administration’s insistence that the U.S. must win a race back to the moon with China, NASA looks increasingly unlikely to succeed, experts say. Meanwhile China insists it isn’t in a ...
SpaceX, billionaire Elon Musk's commercial spaceflight company, says it's working on a "simplified" plan for its Starship megarocket to land astronauts on the moon. The revelation, which was shared ...
In proposing its new plan for Starship, SpaceX also rejected the notion that progress for the world's largest rocket has been too slow. NASA is looking to return Americans to the surface of the moon ...