SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.
but it will be much longer before they reach the moon. Blue Ghost will orbit Earth for 25 days, before firing its engines to start a four-day journey to the moon, where it will orbit for 16 days. After this, it will autonomously descend and land, in a plain c...
The Polaris Dawn mission has many first-time objectives, so the Polaris Program chose a crew of experts who know each other well and have a foundation of trust they can build upon as they undergo the challenges of this mission. In addition to Isaacman, the crew includes Scott “Kidd” Pot...
What's next for the 2 private landers SpaceX just launched toward the moon? SpaceX will launch 2 private lunar landers this week, kicking off busy year for moon missions ThisBlue Ghostflight, namedGhost Riders in the Sky, is Firefly's first mission to the moon and is part ...
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The U.S. remains the only one to have landed astronauts. NASA’s Artemis program, the successor to Apollo, aims to get astronauts back on the moon by the end of the decade. Before that can happen, “we’re sending a lot of science and a lot of technology ahead of time to prepare ...
— Starship and Super Heavy: SpaceX's Mars transportation system — Elon Musk: SpaceX founder and revolutionary private space entrepreneur "Congratulations to all of the people at SpaceX on continuing to make history in the advancement of humanity to the Moon, Mars and beyond!!" Proctor wrote...
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A first stage with 9 Merlin engines and black interstage. The new titanium grid finsare deployable. The black landing legs lock into landing position. A removable second stage with a Dragon 2 spacecraft payload for carrying humans on missions to the Moon and Mars.The capsule detaches from the...
In a sign it’s serious about getting the “first woman” and “first person of color” to the Moon in the near future, the US space agency NASA has contracted Elon Musk’s SpaceX to build a lunar lander, based on the Starship concept.