SpaceX's Falcon 9 lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday to deploy three government spacecraft.

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.

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.

Live updates from Thursday morning’s back-to-back SpaceX Starlink 10-15 and ULA Kuiper 3 missions from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

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.

A busy week on the Space Coast saw two rockets launch within hours of one another as both SpaceX and United Launch Alliance had missions to proliferate a pair of competing satellite constellations.

NASA has named its new class of astronaut candidates. The space agency introduced the four men and six women who comprise its 2025 trainee group.

Sierra Space and NASA have sharply revised a contract to use the company’s Dream Chaser vehicle to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.

“The HLS schedule is significantly challenged and, in our estimation, could be years late for a 2027 Artemis 3 Moon landing,” said panelist Paul Hill, who is a former director of Mission Operations at Nasa. “The next six months of Starship launches will be telling about the likelihood of HLS flying crew in 2027 or by the end of the decade.”