Despite midair explosion after launch, it’s not over for SpaceX’s Starship
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made light of Starship's fiery end. "Success is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed!" he said on ...
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NASA will announce update to Mars sample return plans today. Here's how to listen in
NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could ...
NASA exploring two lower-cost options to go forward with Mars Sample Return mission
NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a ...
SpaceX's Starship spacecraft is apparently destroyed after launch test: Watch video
The uncrewed Starship spacecraft was apparently destroyed during its first flight launch of 2025 that blasted off from south Texas.
SpaceX's Starship spacecraft destroyed in mega rocket launch
Telemetry from the Starship froze just more than 8 minutes after launch from Texas, moments after engines began shutting down ...
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Rocket Lab takes jab at NASA with release of Mars sample return plan
The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.
Bezos vs. Musk billionaire space race gets serious with launches on same day – but who will win?
Jeff Bezos, the second richest man in the world, successfully blasted off a 320-foot-tall rocket ship made by his Blue Origin company from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in the early hours of the morning.
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Rocket Lab asks NASA to open up MSR to commercial competition
is similar to NASA’s earlier architecture, including the use of a sample retrieval lander, Mars ascent vehicle rocket to launch the samples into orbit, and an Earth return orbiter that would ...