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

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

This is what Mr Musk said he wanted to do last year. Then it seemed barely plausible. Today it looks next to impossible. Mr ...

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

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.

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 ... funding to the Starship programme through its Human Landing System (HLS) contract ...

Artist's impressions of Orion (left) and Starship HLS (right ... meant that NASA had to make new plans for landing the Artemis III crew on the Moon. This meant breaking with the principle ...