Human Landing System

NASA defends Artemis cost and schedule amid planning of possible changes

Daisy Hips

WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Bill Nelson defended the cost and schedule performance of the agency’s Artemis lunar exploration effort even ...

SpaceX making progress on Starship in-space refueling technologies

Daisy Hips

WASHINGTON — NASA says SpaceX is on track to demonstrate in-space refueling of Starship next year, a critical technology for ...

Final NASA 2024 spending bill defers decision on MSR funding

Brendan Martin

WASHINGTON — Congressional appropriators have released a final fiscal year 2024 spending bill that cuts NASA funding from what the ...

Blue Origin and SpaceX start work on cargo versions of crewed lunar landers

Daisy Hips

WASHINGTON — The two companies with NASA contracts to develop crewed lunar landers are also beginning work on cargo versions ...

NASA “unlikely” to launch Artemis moon landing flight in 2025, GAO says

Daisy Hips

A fast-track schedule, along with delays developing SpaceX’s moon lander and new Axiom spacesuits, make the first Artemis moon landing ...

Starship lunar lander missions to require nearly 20 launches, NASA says

Daisy Hips

BERLIN — As SpaceX prepares for its next Starship test flight, a NASA official said that the use of that ...

Blue Origin reveals mockup of Blue Moon lunar lander prototype

Brendan Martin

WASHINGTON — Blue Origin has unveiled a full-sized mockup of an uncrewed version of its Blue Moon lunar lander that ...