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Members of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel believe the Human Landing System version of Starship won’t be ready for Artemis 3’s launch in 2027.
NASA unveiled its 2025 astronaut class this week, and two familiar names popped out: Anna Menon and Yuri Kubo. Both spent more than a decade at SpaceX, where they played critical roles in the company’s rise to the behemoth it is today.
FLORIDA TODAY Space Team launch coverage will kick off at floridatoday.com starting about 90 minutes before the Starlink launch window opens.
SpaceX has completed the final major test ahead of a critical flight test of its Mars-bound Starship rocket. The upper stage of the rocket performed a static fire of its six raptor engines while anchored to the launch pad at SpaceX ’s Starbase facility in Texas on Monday, with the launch expected to take place in the coming days or weeks.
As the New York Times reports, experts are now warning that China could beat the United States in the race back to the Moon. After a series of successful robotic missions to the Earth’s natural satellite, the country has made major strides in its efforts to launch its “Lanyue” lunar lander to the Moon before 2030.