"Their plan is that they're going to do a few test flights there" in South Texas, NASA administrator Bill Nelson said. "Once they have the confidence, they will bring the missions to the Cape." How can I watch the Starship launch?
Musk has bold plans for Starship, as he announced the bold timeline for when the rocket will start making trips to Mars. The first missions will be unmanned: “The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens. These will be uncrewed to tes...
Elon Musk has confirmed SpaceX’s plans to delay its next Starship test launch, after it was initially aiming to perform the reusable ship’s sixth liftoff this week. During a livestream onXon Tuesday, Musk said that Starship’s seventh launch would be delayed “three or four days,” notin...
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SpaceX boss Elon Musk has said the mighty Starship rocket could take its fourth test flight as early as June. Responding to an inquiry on X (formerly Twitter) asking about plans for the next launch of the world’s most powerful rocket,Musk said: “Probably 3 to 5 weeks.” ...
The idea is that a mission to the moon would launch to geosynchronous orbit, rendezvous with the space-line and ride it the rest of the way to the moon, or to a base at the Earthmoon Lagrange point where the gravity of the Earth and the moon balance out. It would cut the amount ...
But Blue Origin has not publicly announced the specific launch date and time, only that is nearing the first launch of New Glenn after a succesful first stage hot-fire test on Dec. 27 at its pad, Space Launch Complex 36, in Cape Canaveral. The mission will be ambitious, testi...
SpaceX regularly sends civilians to the International Space Station and on free-flying missions. Most of these people have not been subjected to the rigorous psychological tests that Shuttle astronauts receive. Boeing's Starliner, SpaceX's Starship, and other vehicles will, in the not-...
Mars is still not explored enough to send thousands of spacecraft there. And the spaceships themselves leave a lot to be desired: in 2020, the Starship used by SpaceX exploded on the launch pad after its return to Earth. However, Musk called the ship's test a s...
NASA’s Artemis program faces many challenges to overcome to achieve its goal of landing humans on the Moon in 2024. There are the myriad technical problems that have already occurred, and will likely continue to crop up in the coming years as NASA completes development of the Space Launch Sy...