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 ...

Even a heavy lift rocket China’s national space officials showed off a year ago bore a striking resemblance to Starship, from a “two-stage, fully reusable configuration” right down to the aerodynamic ...

A growing number of Chinese companies are creating rockets similar to SpaceX’s mega-rocket, and they are not hiding it.

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 ...

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Experts warn that the Starship Human Landing System may be years behind schedule, but SpaceX says it has a new plan to save its Artemis 3 contract. Reading time 4 minutes SpaceX and NASA are, in many ...

WASHINGTON (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 move more ...

NASA's Nova-C lunar lander on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in February. (Cristobal Herrera-Ulashkevich/EPA/Shutterstock) SpaceX ...

NASA wants companies to compete with SpaceX over a contract it holds to put astronauts on the moon, a fresh sign of blowback over delays with Elon Musk’s Starship spacecraft. “I’m in the process of ...

While the first Starship was a test run, the second version of SpaceX's rocket was always meant as a stepping stone for what ...

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 ...