Throngs of spectators watched from South Padre Island, several miles away from the Boca Chica Beach launch site, which was off limits. As it lifted off, the crowd screamed: “Go, baby, go!” The company plans to useStarshipto send people and cargo to the moon and, eventually, Mars. NA...
the agency tapped spacex to develop a version of the rocket that is capable of landing astronauts on the moon’s surface. but the real reason spacex is developing starship—and the whole reason musk got into the space business to begin with—is to get boot prints on the red planet. if...
noting that using that scale, going to the moon would only be crossing the English Channel (and going to the ISS would be going to a dock 117 feet off the shore). Continuing with that comparison, he says, “A rocket made to go to Low Earth Orbit or even the moon is basically like ...
NASA continues to target the end of 2025 for the first Artemis astronaut moon landing, but SpaceX faces a daunting number of test flights with its Super Heavy rocket and Starship lunar lander between now and then, raising concerns the flight "probably" will slip into 2026, a top NASA manage...
off without a hitch, and Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander was released to fly on its own 48 minutes after liftoff. If all goes well, the spacecraft will brake into orbit around the moon and descend to the surface next Thursday, touching down about 186 miles from the moon's south pole...
Starship SN11 crashes during landing The three Merlin engines on SpaceX's SN11 prototype firing during the craft's test flight on March 30, 2021. It crashed during landing. (Image credit: SpaceX) On March 30, 2021, SpaceX's Starship SN11 lifted off in thick fog only to meet a similar...
ON 2 APRIL 2021 NASA's Kathryn Lueders approved the sole selection of SpaceX to develop the Human Landing System (HLS) designed to put the "first woman and the first person of colour" on the Moon. Blue Origin LLC came second with Dynetics. Inc in third place. Proposals had been delivere...
It began as a dream to take mice and plants to Mars and ended up as the first private company to carry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. And, along the way, it survived many crashes and an almost inevitable financial extinction. ...
Space debris weighing over 1,000 pounds crashes into Kenya village What to know about tonight's "black moon" In: Elon Musk Artemis Program Space NASA SpaceX William Harwood Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief...
Menon and Gillis blasted off Tuesday from the Kennedy Space Center atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The crew accomplished the first major goal of the flight right off the bat, climbing to an altitude of 870 miles — higher than any piloted spacecraft since the Apollo moon program 60 years ...