NASA administrator Jared Isaacman said the agency is speeding up its Artemis program, reaffirming plans to launch Artemis 3 next summer as a docking-practice mission in Earth orbit, with Artemis 4 slated for 2028 to put astronauts back on the lunar surface for a week. NASA has not yet chosen between SpaceX's and Blue Origin's lunar landers for the eventual landing mission. Isaacman said the agency is cutting meetings and bureaucratic delay, citing the Apollo program's rapid pace as a model.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-29
NASA has outlined the sequence for Artemis 3, which will launch three heavy-lift rockets from Florida within about two weeks: Blue Origin's New Glenn carrying a test Blue Moon Mark 2 lander, SLS with the crewed Orion capsule, and SpaceX's Starship version 3. Astronauts aboard Orion will dock with Blue Moon Mark 2 to test its systems before undocking, then briefly dock with Starship to check compatibility, without entering it.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-27
SpaceX is preparing to launch its fourteenth full-scale Starship test flight on Monday, pending regulatory approval. The plan calls for Starship to orbit Earth six times over ten hours at an altitude of 171 miles before attempting a soft landing, following hardware changes to the Super Heavy booster after only 10 of 13 engines relit during the last landing attempt in July.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-25
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