While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.
Blue Ghost's final descent to the Moon is tentatively scheduled for March 2. The target landing site is in Mare Crisium, an ...
Firefly Aerospace's first mission to the moon is poised to launch in the early morning hours on Jan. 15. The company's Blue ...
Notably, on board Athena will be PRIME-1, or the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1, a NASA-developed tech demo designed to search and drill for water ice. Also sharing a ride with Athena ...
SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight Thursday, catching the booster back at the pad but losing ...
Billionaire aeronaut Jared Isaacman, one of the world’s great space philanthropists and now set to head NASA, says he envisions ... in an interview that these demo missions are laying the ...
The company also upgraded the spacecraft for the latest demo. The test satellites were ... the world’s biggest and most powerful rocket. NASA has reserved a pair of Starships to land astronauts ...
Come next year, NASA plans to go deeper in the testing realm, and it is expected to eventually make a request for task order proposals for further demo missions. The company selected will have to ...