By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 26 March 2022 SpaceX showed off a completed Starship/Super Heavy vehicle in February, but that vehicle now appears unlikely to perform the first orbital launch attempt once the FAA awards a license to the company. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration has
By Anthony Cuthbertson, Published by The Independent, 17 March 2022 SpaceX boss Elon Musk has set 2029 as the year humans will make it to Mars aboard his company’s Starship rocket. The tech billionaire had previously hoped to make the first crewed missions to the Red Planet in either 2024
By Andy Tomaswick, Published by Universe Today, 18 March 2022 The path back to the moon is long and fraught with danger, both in the real, physical sense and also in the contractual, legal sense. NASA, the agency sponsoring the largest government-backed lunar program, Artemis, has already been feeling the
By Andy Tomaswick, Published by Universe Today, 14 March 2022 This will likely come as a surprise to no one who has closely watched the development of NASA’s next giant rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), but it’s going to be expensive to use. Like, really expensive – to the
By Tom McKay, Published by Gizmodo, 17 January 2020 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who has previously conceded that many of the people whom he desires to send to Mars must be prepared to risk death in the process, has sweetened the deal with the hint of some indentured servitude. On Thursday
