SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk hurled insults at NASA’s acting administrator a day after complaints that the company was behind schedule on its Artemis lunar lander.

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NASA’s acting administrator says he will “open up the contract” SpaceX holds to land astronauts on the moon for the Artemis 3 mission because the company has fallen behind schedule.

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China is on track to land its first crew on the lunar surface by 2030 and establish a base at the resource-rich south pole — a site that offers continuous […]

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SYDNEY, Australia — Solstar Space announced a NASA contract Sept. 29 to develop commercial Wi-Fi access points for the space agency’s Artemis and Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) programs. Under […]

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NASA’s Artemis 2 mission around the moon could launch as soon as early February, as both agency officials and the mission’s four-person crew say they are ready for the flight.

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NASA announced its newest class of astronauts Sept. 22 as agency leaders and lawmakers emphasized their intent to return humans to the moon before China.

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NASA safety advisers say they doubt the lunar lander version of SpaceX’s Starship will be ready to support the Artemis 3 mission as planned in 2027.

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At an all-hands meeting on Friday September 5, Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy found himself on the defensive regarding former Administrator Jim Bridenstine’s recent comments about NASA’s failure to move […]

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The only way to create a sustainable program of exploring the moon and Mars with humans, beyond the initial flush of achievement, is by fully integrating science into our planning. […]

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NASA’s acting administrator said he was “angry” after a predecessor told Congress the agency was behind China in sending astronauts to the moon.

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NASA has named Amit Kshatriya as its new associate administrator in a move meant to emphasize the role of exploration at the agency.

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A former NASA administrator told senators he believed it was “highly unlikely” the agency would return astronauts to the moon before China landed astronauts there.

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A lunar rover makes its way across rough terrain in August, navigating past rocky outcrops and around, or sometimes over, small craters. The topography in this case, is not the […]

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The recent passing of retired Navy Capt. Jim Lovell, an astronaut and one of our great American heroes, propelled many of us back to the iconic scenes from the superb […]

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SpaceX completed a largely successful test flight of its Starship vehicle Aug. 26, putting the vehicle’s development program back on track after a series of failures earlier this year.

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For more than six decades, NASA has been the world’s lodestar for exploration. We designed the rockets, trained the astronauts and landed on the moon when the idea was barely […]

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America has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to open the space frontier by initiating a sustained program of human exploration of Mars. Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship launch system may soon be operational, […]

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We should rethink how to send humans to Mars — a goal now getting much discussion. With proposed budgets and current technical difficulties in human spaceflight development making such a […]

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America once led the world to the stars. Today, Congress is propping up pork barrel rocket programs while China builds the future. Here's how we fix it — before it's too late.

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The European Space Agency is weighing options for programs affected by proposed major budget cuts at NASA as it also seeks to expand cooperation with other nations.

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Norway signed the Artemis Accords May 15, a sign that the new administration continues to advance the document outlining best practices for responsible space exploration.

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Problems with laser altimeters along with lighting and terrain challenges caused Intuitive Machines’ second lunar lander to fall on its side when it landed on the moon in March.

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Space agencies working on the NASA-led Artemis lunar exploration campaign said they plan to continue work on their contributions despite NASA’s current budget uncertainty, even as some consider alternative cooperation.

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We’ve observed with concern a rising trend in human spaceflight discussions: the suggestion that we bypass the moon and send humans directly to Mars. In light of this, we believe […]

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