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NASA chief Jared Isaacman says the US must land on the Moon before China in 2028 — not for prestige, but to control the rules of the cislunar economy.
The Seattle startup has nearly $500M in purchase orders from the US Air Force, DOE, and quantum computing firms — but the first extraction won't happen until 2030 at the earliest.
NASA has opened bids for five lunar technologies — from oxygen extraction to Stirling generators — as the U.S. races to establish a permanent South Pole base before China's 2030 deadline.
A new expert panel called M-FORCE will audit planetary protection protocols based on Viking-era data—and could cut sterilization costs that already eat up 10% of mission budgets.
Canadian robotics firm MDA Space is rewriting its technical brief after NASA paused the Lunar Gateway project, shifting the iconic robotic arm toward lunar surface logistics instead.
With Boeing's Starliner years behind schedule, SpaceX's existing fleet is now America's only reliable path to the International Space Station through 2030.
A Falcon 9 upper stage launched in January 2025 will slam into the lunar surface on August 5, 2026, giving researchers a rare live experiment in crater formation.
Two 400kg spacecraft built by Lockheed Martin's Terran Orbital are set to practice autonomous docking in lunar orbit in 2027 — no human hand-holding required.
SR-1 Freedom carries a fission reactor and three next-gen helicopters — and it's as much about US space nuclear policy as it is about Mars.
Two Starlink Mini laser terminals on Orion will stream live 4K video of orbital docking — the first time a crewed NASA spacecraft has done that in real time.
Astronomers used X-ray echoes from gamma-ray bursts to measure our galaxy's spiral arms more precisely than ever before — and found they're 10% farther away.
The standalone Icons set triples the piece count of the 2021 Space Shuttle version and opens up to reveal the telescope's internal instrument bay.
The Artemis II mission used an experimental laser link to beam live video from lunar orbit to 25 million viewers. Radio waves couldn't have done it.
The veteran probe ended a 321-day hibernation on June 23, and Congress saved it from budget cuts just in time to keep science going.
