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Six months after the first Starship flight spawned an investigation by the FAA, a lawsuit by environmentalists and hope by NASA officials that Elon Musk’s towering creation will be reliable enough to carry the astronauts to the moon, SpaceX is getting ready to launch Starship again.

The Orion for Artemis 2, humanitys first lunar mission in 50 years, powered on successfully on Nov. 6. It will carry four astronauts around the moon no earlier than 2024.

The four “tyrannies”— distance, water, time, and scale —complicate logistics, and when combined, undermine deterrence in the Indo-Pacific

As it turns out, it takes a good deal of planning, patience and, well, Perseverance, to create a cake in the shape of a NASA Mars rover. Just ask Duff Goldman.

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen will first reach space on the Artemis 2 moon mission. Space, he says, feels more real by the day.

“We’re building our landers to enable global landing capability on the Moon, day or night."

NASA conducted a water deluge test Oct. 24 to evaluate how well its water system will protect its hardware and astronauts during the launch of the round-the-moon Artemis 2 mission in 2024.

NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems conducts a water flow test with the mobile launcher at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center’s in Florida on Oct. 24, 2023. It is the

Sections of the Orion spacecraft tasked with flying four astronauts around the moon during the Artemis 2 mission have been joined together. The mission is set for no earlier than late 2024.

A containerized launcher able to fire SM-6 and Tomahawk missiles offers Littoral Combat Ships and other Navy vessels a major firepower boost.