Credit: NASA The smaller Blue Origin Blue Moon lunar lander is shorter than the Starship HLS and its landing gear ... instruments near SMRs on crewed Artemis missions, these regions should be ...

Credit: NASA ... firsts on Artemis 3, such as in its most recent annual report released in early 2024. That report listed 13 separate firsts for the mission, mostly tied to the Starship lunar ...

Why being first to return to the moon matters.

SpaceX has changed humanity's relationship with space. Where once we had to painstakingly plan every rocket launch and dump most of the vehicle in the ocean, SpaceX now sends Falcon 9s into orbit ...

NASA has pushed back its Artemis 2 and ... and research labs as part of its Human Landing System (HLS) Starship, designed for the Artemis III Moon landing in 2026. Located within the HLS nosecone ...

It is in this context that NASA has designed the Artemis missions, named after the Greek goddess ... and the landing will be done by SpaceX's Human Landing System (HLS), a Starship rocket variant, ...

Eric Berger reported on December 4 that NASA may cancel the SLS with the ... need and it is a much smaller number than the Starship HLS refueling estimates. If SpaceX designs an upper stage ...