Unlike Apollo—which used a single spacecraft comprising a mothership and lunar lander—Artemis III will see Orion dock with ...

NASA has officially added SpaceX's enormous Starship rocket to its roster — despite the vehicle never having completed a single successful test flight, let alone mission. According to a statement last ...

SpaceX has just unveiled a new variant of the HLS Starship, designed specifically for NASA’s Artemis Moon missions. With major upgrades in landing capability, fuel efficiency, and astronaut ...

SpaceX will need to launch the rocket more frequently to meet its obligations for NASA, which is paying it to design a human landing system (HLS) variant of Starship’s upper stage. That vehicle ...

Elon Musk’s Mars ambitions face political, technical, and timing hurdles, impacting NASA’s Moon plans and America’s space ...

If all the Starship needs to do is take a pod of ... Mr Musk’s interest is purely instrumental; the $4bn in NASA contracts SpaceX has won for HLS will develop technologies the company needs ...

Last year, SpaceX tested a lunar lander docking system to safely transfer NASA astronauts from the agency's Orion capsule to the Starship Human Landing System (HLS) while in orbit around the Moon. In ...

Last year, SpaceX tested a lunar lander docking system to safely transfer NASA astronauts from the agency's Orion capsule to the Starship Human Landing System (HLS) while in orbit around the Moon.

NASA has contributed significant funding to the Starship programme through its Human Landing System (HLS) contract, awarding SpaceX $2.9 billion to develop a lunar variant of Starship for the Artemis ...