Christian Davenport

Monday’s planned launch comes as the aerospace giant is dealing with the fallout from problems with its airline division.

An inspector general’s report helps explain why NASA has delayed by at least a year what was to have been Orion’s first flight with crew on board.

Elon Musk’s space venture may finally be facing a space industry that is poised to challenge SpaceX on a number of fronts.

The rovers would operate even when astronauts are not on the moon.

Starship flew for nearly an hour in space, though it didn’t survive reentry into Earth’s atmosphere, coming to a fiery end over the Indian Ocean.

SpaceX launched its massive Starship rocket at 9:25 a.m. Eastern time Thursday and it made it more than halfway around the Earth before communication was lost.

Nearly a decade ago, Congress passed a law that allows private American space companies the rights to resources they mine on celestial bodies, including the moon.. Now a company has said it wants to take advantage of that law.

The test, the third of a fully assembled Starship and booster, could happen as soon as Thursday.

The company’s eighth crew rotation mission for NASA is scheduled to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:16 p.m. Eastern Saturday.

Photos released Wednesday show the lander listing on the moon, with a broken leg.