For the first time, Blue Origin put its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship through a couple of minutes' worth of moon-level ...

Welcome to Edition 7.30 of the Rocket Report! The US government relies on SpaceX for a lot of missions. These include ...

The third Starship test flight last March saw the spacecraft reach its planned trajectory and fly halfway around the world ...

Last month, Donald Trump issued his first direct order to Elon Musk as president: go fetch the astronauts who flew to the ...

which licenses commercial rocket launches. While SpaceX said initial data indicates a fire developed in the aft section of the ship, Musk said on X that next month's eighth Starship flight is ...

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin joined the billionaire’s space race in earnest when its New Glenn rocket roared from a launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in the early morning hours of Jan. 16. The second ...

However, an attempt to land the first stage on a drone ship failed ... New Glenn will launch the Blue Moon lander as an alternative to the SpaceX monster rocket. The wonders that these two ...

Currently, Blue Origin is contracted by NASA to send its ESCAPADE science mission to Mars, as well as a a future human lunar lander known as Blue Moon. For now ... over eight minutes into flight the ...

A minute before the loss, SpaceX used the launch tower’s giant mechanical arms to catch the returning booster, a feat achieved only once before. The descending booster hovered over the launch pad ...

It failed to land its booster onto ... into orbit and is testing out its giant Starship rocket which it hopes will send astronauts to the Moon and one day possibly on to Mars.

However, the rocket’s first stage exploded on the way back down to Earth as Blue Origin attempted to land that section on a drone ship at sea ... is designing for the moon.

That’s because the Starship vehicles “will be staying in space for long duration missions to go to the moon or ... New Glenn rocket this morning. It safely reached orbit but failed to land ...