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Lunar Starship was never meant to come home to Earth, SpaceX admits

SpaceX’s lunar Starship was never designed to blaze back through Earth’s atmosphere in a shower of plasma. Instead, the ...

Blue Origin’s newly named lunar lander headed to Houston for testing

Blue Origin’s next launch from the Space Coast could still be its uncrewed and newly named Blue Moon MK1 lander, but it will ...
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NASA's new boss says the race is on between SpaceX and Blue Origin to build a moon lander

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are racing to put humans back on the moon for the first time in 50 years. New NASA boss Jared Isaacman said the agency will pick whichever company finishes its lunar ...
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SpaceX lunar lander 'Odie' blasts off into space, aiming for historic US moon landing

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Odysseus lunar lander, nicknamed "Odie" or IM-1, has embarked on a historic journey to the lunar surface - aiming to make the first touchdown of a US-made spacecraft ...
Entrepreneur

NASA Awards SpaceX, Blue Origin, and 3 Other Companies $146 Million In Contracts to Make Moon Lander Designs

NASA announced on Tuesday that it had awarded five US companies, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, a total of $146 million in contracts to develop moon-lander designs.

SpaceX eyes mid-March for first test of upgraded Starship rocket

The launch date had been up in the air after the rocket's booster stage suffered an explosion during testing in November.