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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 ...
ABC7 San Francisco

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 ...

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 ...
AOL

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 ...
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. The ...
SpaceNews

SpaceX plans next Starship test flight in March

The first Starship test flight of 2026 is scheduled for as soon as early March as SpaceX enters a critical year in the ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX sees plenty of Chinese clones inspired by Starship

SpaceX's Starship, the world's largest rocket, has inspired several Chinese companies to develop similar spacecraft designs.

Blue Origin pauses trips on rocket that carried Jeff Bezos, Katy Perry and William Shatner to space

Blue Origin is pausing flights aboard its suborbital space tourism rocket New Shepard in order to expedite development of a lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis program.