"In order to have a sustained economy around the moon, I think we need a heavy lift launch vehicle," Altemus said. Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket could be up to the super-heavy lunar lift task ...

SpaceX made multiple changes in the wake of a January Starship failure, only to suffer a second straight vehicle breakup Thursday.

SpaceX said that, according to its analysis, the self-destruct system blew up the rocket a few minutes later ... from lunar orbit to the surface of the moon during its Artemis III mission ...

It was not immediately known whether the spacecraft's self-destruct system had kicked in to blow it up.The 403-foot rocket blasted off ... its astronauts on the moon later this decade.

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission. On March 23, 2025, technicians working at NASA's ...

NASA's next moon rocket is coming together, piece by piece. The core stage of NASA's next Space Launch System (SLS) rocket recently completed integration with the vehicle's side boosters inside ...

With two commercial moon landers already on their way ... deploy a small commercially-built rover and a rocket-powered hopper that will jump up to 300 feet high before bounding into a nearby ...