NASA reopens the commercial Hubble servicing mission
NASA has asked industry for ideas on a commercial mission to service and possibly boost the Hubble Space Telescope; no bidder, mission scope or funding is known. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman…
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Artemis III
NASA has stacked the Artemis III core stage between its boosters and still aims for a summer 2027 launch. The 14-day Earth-orbit mission would dock Orion with both SpaceX and Blue Origin prototype…
Artemis IV
NASA is still assembling Artemis IV hardware, with its 130-foot liquid-hydrogen tank moved to the vertical assembly building at Michoud for roll-ring attachment and priming. The revised plan targets…
Moon-base logistics: NASA's $30B permanent lunar base + bulk launch procurement
NASA is moving toward a $30 billion permanent lunar base, a program that would buy launch capacity in bulk and send up to 60 tons of equipment to the Moon's surface starting 2029. It is weighing…
Rocket Lab's ESCAPADE pair and the Earth-swingby Mars maneuver
Rocket Lab's Blue and Gold spacecraft, NASA's ESCAPADE Mars orbiters, are heading back toward Earth for a gravity assist. Each is to fire its main engine for a burn in November that sets course for…
Artemis Accords
Uzbekistan became the 77th signatory to the Artemis Accords on 19 October 2026, signing alongside US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The cooperation covers NASA collaboration, specialist training,…
ISS endgame: 2030 deorbit and the successor race
Commercial crew: Dragon retirement planning
Mars Telecommunications Network: Blue Origin's $700M award, Rocket Lab's GAO protest
US Space Academy: EO 14423, the commission, and the state site race
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Artemis III astronauts meet Trump; NASA chief says "I'll be fired" if China wins the Moon race
The Artemis III crew met President Trump in the Oval Office and presented him with a Moon rock as a reminder of where the program is going. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman framed the Moon race as a…