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NASA has a wild plan to return astronauts to the moon. Here’s why experts are starting to worry
(CNN) — Calls for the United States to return astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade have been increasingly loud and frequent, emanating from bipartisan lawmakers and science advocates ...
SpaceX to work on 'simplified' Starship plan for NASA. When is next Texas launch?
SpaceX, which has been testing its massive Starship spacecraft from South Texas, has proposed to NASA a new plan for a moon ...
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SpaceX reveals simpler lander to speed up Moon return
With its metaphorical feet held over the allegorical fire by NASA, SpaceX has released a new, simplified plan to build a lander to put US astronauts back on the Moon now that the competition for the ...
A plan written by Trump’s NASA pick was leaked. Here’s what to know about ‘Project Athena’
A 62-page document written by billionaire Jared Isaacman outlines a sweeping, ambitious, and at times controversial plan for ...
What would a “simplified” Starship plan for the Moon actually look like?
As part of this move, Duffy asked NASA’s current lunar lander contractors, SpaceX and Blue Origin, for more nimble plans. Neither has specified those plans publicly, but a recent update from SpaceX ...
Rogue space junk strands 3 Chinese astronauts at Tiangong space station. What we know
The spacecraft in question was the Shenzhou-20 capsule, which transported a crew of three astronauts to the Tiangong space ...
China plans to go to the moon by 2030. Here's what's known about the mission and why it matters
More than 50 years after the last time humans walked on the moon, China is working steadily toward landing its astronauts on ...