SpaceX readied a Falcon 9 rocket for launch early Wednesday to send a commercially built robotic lander to the moon, the first targeted landing near the moon’s south pole where NASA’s Artemis astronauts plan to orbit in a few years . The flight comes just five weeks after another American company’s attempt to land a … Read more
Houston-based Axiom Space is poised for the company’s third private astronaut launch to space. Ax-3 will carry a four-person, all-European crew on an approximately two-week mission to conduct research aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The quartet consists of Ax-3 mission commander and former NASA astronaut Michael “LA” López-Alegría, mission specialist Walter Villadeiwho also flew … Read more
For better or worse, the moon is officially open for business. On Monday (Jan. 8), United Launch Alliance’s shiny new Vulcan Centaur rocket will launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander and the Celestis and Elysium commemorative payloads of human remains and DNA. Two memorial companies, Elysium Space and … Read more