NASA has outlined the initial missions under its Moon Base initiative, rebranding existing Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) flights, while also awarding contracts for the first crewed Lunar ...

The Exploration Company (TEC), developing the reusable Nyx spacecraft, has taken a significant step forward in its recovery system development. The company completed a dedicated drop test of the Nyx ...

Blue Origin experienced a major anomaly during a planned hot-fire test of its New Glenn rocket at Launch Complex-36 on Thursday evening, resulting in the loss of the vehicle’s booster and upper stage, ...

Starship Version 3 flew for the first time this week in a mission of several firsts, performing notably better than previous version debuts, demonstrating that the upgraded vehicle remains on track to ...

The Chinese space station Tiangong, permanently occupied since June 5, 2022, is about to receive a new set of crew members. Shenzhou 23 launched atop a Chang Zheng 2F (CZ-2F) from Site 91 at the ...

After 10 days, over 800,000 km traveled, and a historic flyby of the Moon, Artemis II returned to Earth on Friday evening. Orion CM-003 Integrity, which served as the home for the mission’s ...

NASA management updated the agency’s human exploration plans for the 2020s to the NASA Advisory Council’s (NAC) Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Committee last month at the Ames Research Center ...

On Friday, May 22, 2026, at 5:30:21 pm CDT, Starship Flight 12 lifted off from Pad 2 at Starbase, Texas. This stack, which comprised Ship 39 and Booster 19, was the first Block 3 stack to fly for the ...

Nearly one month after Artemis II’s historic launch with four astronauts flying by the Moon, processing for the next Artemis flight is making progress in advance of its scheduled 2027 flight. The core ...

The license authorizes Skyrora to conduct up to 16 launches annually of its Skylark L suborbital rocket, with a maximum of two per month and one every 24 hours, subject to additional approvals such as ...

NASA is deep into planning for Artemis III, a pivotal crewed mission in low Earth orbit scheduled for next year that will serve as a critical dress rehearsal for the agency’s return to the Moon. The ...

Starship’s second stage has evolved through numerous iterations since the early test flights of SN8 and SN15. Ship 39, the first vehicle of Block 3, marks the latest update. While it does not ...