Starship rockets built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX have blown up. A version of that biggest-ever booster is slated to launch the ...

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 ...

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

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.

WASHINGTON – NASA’s mega moon ... operated up until including recently, I don’t want that to occur on such an important part of the Moon." "NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket is ...

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

The Artemis II astronauts, as well as folks following the mission preparations, will be pleased to learn that NASA recently lifted the SLS rocket’s ... around the moon in 2022.

Later that day, SpaceX launched the eighth test of its Starship super rocket ... s intended and not blow up. Starship needs to become operational to carry humankind to the moon, Mars and beyond.

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 ...

The lander will then carry them back up to Orion for the ride home. Why, despite all the technological advances since Apollo 11 astronauts went to the moon on a single Saturn V rocket, do 21st ...