Tell us, Lauren, about what this implication really means for how you actual astronauts, human beings get to the moon. Right. So under the original plan, Boeing's built s rocket, which Nassar owns, would have played a substantial role in propelling astronauts to the moon. So astronauts flying inside the Orion crew capsule would have launched on top of the SLAC, which would have sent them to the vicinity of the moon.From there, the capsule would have gone into the moon's orbit and it would have met up with S ...

NASA's challenge is what comes next. Getting Artemis 3 astronauts from lunar orbit to the moon surface. To do that, NASA in 2021 awarded a nearly $3 billion contract to Elon Musk's SpaceX for the lunar lander version of its Starship, the biggest, most powerful launch vehicle ever built.Made of two components, the lunar lander will sit a top the reusable Superheavy booster. After several spectacular failures and explosions, Starship rebounded with successful launches this past August and October. But the set ...