NASA's Artemis 3 mission will no longer land astronauts on the moon —and it might not involve SpaceX's Starship megarocket, either.

The plan hinges on SpaceX being able to demonstrate that Starship can refuel in orbit. NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX now worth $4.4 billion to develop a lander capable of transporting humans to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk's SpaceX on Thursday said it proposed to NASA a simplified plan to send humans to the moon using its Starship rocket, as the agency presses its contractors to move more ...

NASA may have no choice but to postpone the launch of its next mission to land astronauts on the moon by more than a year. Growing pains for SpaceX's massive Starship rocket over the past year have ...

Though SpaceX was awarded the lunar lander contract in 2021, NASA recently indicated its intention to consider other options from Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin. Under its Artemis campaign, NASA is ...

In multiple television appearances this week, Transportation Secretary and acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy confirmed that he would be re-opening the contract to build a crewed Moon lander for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SpaceX has for more than two years been testing its massive Starship rocket from Texas for several future missions, including NASA ...

NASA has grown frustrated with the delays to SpaceX's Starship HLS development for its proposed Artemis III Moon landing mission in 2027. This week, it opened the contract to allow other providers to ...

SpaceX, billionaire Elon Musk's commercial spaceflight company, says it's working on a "simplified" plan for its Starship megarocket to land astronauts on the moon. The revelation, which was shared ...