NASA has outlined an ambitious new timeline for SpaceX and Blue Origin to demonstrate their lunar landers, placing both companies under mounting pressure as the agency targets its first astronaut landing on the moon since 1972.

SpaceX, of course, is working hard to increase the flight rate of Starship. But even if SpaceX achieves “twice weekly” launches by the end of 2027, the company would still need about three months to fuel a depot for a Starship landing.

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NASA offered details Friday about the race to prepare two lunar landers built by Blue Origin and SpaceX, and the space agency’s rocket and spacecraft for a crucial test mission next year.

American space agency NASA agains revises the profile of the upcoming crewed missions to the Moon, SpaceX and Blue Origin still to supply the landers.

As part of this, NASA announced Friday that it is working with United Launch Alliance to develop an “extended” version of the Centaur V upper stage. In concert with the core stage of the Space Launch System, this upper stage would allow Orion to reach low-lunar orbit.

As NASA works toward a sustained human presence on the Moon, researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, are helping solve one of the most pressing challenges facing future lunar missions: how to land spacecraft safely without damaging the landing vehicle or nearby infrastructures.

Besides building crewed outposts at the lunar south pole, where else should astronauts go on the Moon? An authoritative new report has suggestions