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Opinion - How the free market can free NASA from the Space Launch System

Fast forward to the present day. The Space Launch System has flown only once, during the Artemis I mission, and is preparing to fly again with Artemis II. According to the NASA Office of Inspector ...

AI helps find new clues in the 60-year search for Luna 9, the 1st successful moon lander

Scientists may have narrowed down the landing site of the Soviet Union's Luna 9, which in 1966 became the first spacecraft to ...
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Watch the new lunar lander – designed for 15 tons in the dark

NASA has revealed a new heavy cargo variant of the Lunar Starship designed to land up to 33,000 pounds on the Moon without a ...

Mystery of missing Soviet spacecraft that vanished during doomed moon mission 60 years ago ‘finally solved’

THE fate of a Soviet spacecraft that mysteriously went missing on the Moon 60 years ago may have finally been solved. Luna ...

Forget Mars – Elon Musk now wants to start a ‘self-growing city’ on the Moon in less than 10 years

ELON Musk has long set his sights on building a colony on Mars where humans can live. But the billionaire space mogul is changing his rocket gears to focus on another, closer destination. The ...
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Blue Origin radically shifts course to dominate Earth orbit and Moon

Blue Origin is abruptly reshaping its business around a single, high‑stakes goal: controlling key lanes in Earth orbit and on ...

Blue Origin Is Changing Trajectory To Compete In Earth Orbit And On The Moon

It won't just be a way for celebrities to go on a star safari anymore: it's ready to get deeply involved in the orbital ...
Scientific American

Space archaeologists may have found a long-lost Soviet lander on the moon

Humanity’s first successful lunar lander is missing. Sixty years ago the Soviet Luna 9 became the first human-made object to achieve a soft landing on the moon—or, for that matter, any celestial body.
Orlando Sentinel

In race with SpaceX, Blue Origin refocuses efforts on Artemis moon lander

SpaceX’s stranglehold as NASA’s choice for the historic moon landing planned for the Artemis III mission later this decade was loosened last year to allow competitor Blue Origin back into the ...
CNBC

Blue Origin shutters New Shepard rocket program to focus on moon lander development

Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin on Friday said it was "pausing" flights of its New Shepard rocket for at least two years, effectively cancelling the company's centerpiece space tourism vehicle ...

Astronauts Are Going Back to the Moon For The First Time in Half a Century

History recalls the names of Borman, Lovell, and Anders; of Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin; of Apollo 13’s Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise. It may soon recall, as ...
Orlando Sentinel

Blue Origin’s newly named lunar lander headed to Houston for testing

Blue Origin’s next launch from the Space Coast could still be its uncrewed and newly named Blue Moon MK1 lander, but it will have to take a trip to Houston and back before it can get to the moon. The ...