SpaceX leader Elon Musk has explained how his vision for travel to Mars encompasses uses in low Earth orbit and on the Moon – and may even act as a point-to-point superfast Earth transportation system. Speaking at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2017),...
Astrobotic Technology Inc, a new lunar logistics company, has contracted with launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA), of the USA, for a secondary payload spot on an Atlas V launch in 2019. Astrobotic announced on 26 July that it would use the ride-share...
During a set piece telephone conversation between White House Oval office and the the International Space Station in April, US President Trump told the astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer on board that he wanted a manned landing on Mars to take place during his...
While Russia is somewhat unrealistically advertising for candidate cosmonauts to go to the Moon (Roscosmos does not currently have a heavy-lift rocket to get them there), the prospect of NASA astronauts getting there is strengthening. This is after the Trump...
SpaceX has agreed to carry two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year, probably with a SpaceX pilot astronaut accompanying them. The unnamed pair have already paid a significant deposit do this moon mission which will use a figure of eight free...
A couple of years ago a UK/Irish bookmaker (Paddy Power) was offering odds on which US spacecraft would carry the next humans into space. Its wisdom is now becoming apparent. For instead of choosing commercial crew contractees, Boeing or SpaceX, with their respective...
