Artemis 5 – Spaceflight Now

January 21, 2025

Breaking News

[ January 21, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center Falcon 9
[ January 18, 2025 ] SpaceX completes 400th Falcon booster landing on mission featuring 27 Starlink satellites Falcon 9
[ January 17, 2025 ] SpaceX successfully catches Super Heavy booster, loses Starship upper stage during Flight 7 Mission Reports
[ January 16, 2025 ] Launch preview: SpaceX to launch its Starship rocket on a 7th suborbital test flight from Starbase Mission Reports
[ January 15, 2025 ] American, Japanese robotic landers share rocket launch to the Moon Falcon 9

NASA awards Blue Origin $3.4 billion Artemis moon lander contract

May 19, 2023 William Harwood

Blue Origin, the rocket company owned by Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos, has won a $3.4 billion NASA contract to build an Artemis lunar lander that will provide a downstream alternative to the Starship variant already being developed by SpaceX, the agency announced Friday.

NASA taps Lockheed Martin to build six more Orion crew capsules

September 23, 2019 Stephen Clark

NASA announced Monday it will order at least six reusable Orion crew capsules from Lockheed Martin for $4.6 billion to fly astronauts to the vicinity of the moon in the 2020s, and the agency said it plans to purchase hardware for up to 12 Orion vehicles by 2030.