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

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 ...

Despite being added to the NLS II contract, Starship’s primary near-term use for NASA will be for the Human Landing System (HLS) program ... in orbit and at the moon, does include some other ...

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 ...

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

which is paying it to design a human landing system (HLS) variant of Starship’s upper stage. That vehicle is assigned to deposit four NASA astronauts at the moon’s south pole in 2027.

allowing it to launch things other than Starship. Doing so could provide a way to transport large payloads to places beyond low-Earth orbit, including the Moon. Mr Musk has shown no interest at ...

Last year, SpaceX tested a lunar lander docking system to safely transfer NASA astronauts from the agency's Orion capsule to ...

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.

SpaceX’s success is crucial, as Starship plays a pivotal role in NASA’s Artemis moon missions, the vision for Mars colonisation ... the Starship programme through its Human Landing System (HLS) ...