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Photo of a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket launching the NS-20 space tourist mission in March 2022.

Blue Origin space tourist launches: Live mission updates

By Elizabeth Howell last updated

Blue Origin's next space tourist mission hasn't yet been announced yet. Here are live updates of what we know.

Human Spaceflight
Photo of a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket launching the NS-20 space tourist mission in March 2022.

Watch Blue Origin launch 'Space Gal' Emily Calandrelli, 5 others on tourism flight today

By Josh Dinner last updated

Blue Origin's next space tourism mission is launching Nov. 22, with 'Space Gal' Emily Calandrelli. Watch live on Space.com.

Private Spaceflight
illustration of two moon rovers and a large white spacecraft on the lunar surface

SpaceX's Starship will fly Lunar Outpost's rover to the moon

By Mike Wall published

Lunar Outpost has picked SpaceX's Starship vehicle to launch its new moon rover and land the wheeled vehicle on the moon.

Moon Rovers
The space shuttle Discovery launches from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin a classified STS-33 mission for the U.S. military on Nov. 22, 1989

On this day in space! Nov. 22, 1989: Space Shuttle Discovery launches classified military satellite on STS-33

By Hanneke Weitering last updated

On Nov. 22, 1989, the space shuttle Discovery launched on a classified mission: STS-33.

Space Shuttle
A blue green and white sphere next to a irregular grey object and a light grey sphere.

Earth's 'second moon' is just visiting its cosmic parents for Thanksgiving

By Robert Lea published

The asteroid 2024 PT5 will leave Earth on Nov. 25 after visiting, but new analysis shows this temporary "second moon" may come from our original moon and, thus, from Earth itself.

Asteroid & Comet Missions
closeup of a huge silver rocket flying through a blue sky

SpaceX likely to get FAA approval for 25 Starship launches in 2025

By Mike Wall published

The FAA plans to approve SpaceX's request to increase the maximum number of annual Starship launches from its South Texas site from five to 25.

Private Spaceflight

SpaceX and NASA show off how Starship will help astronauts land on the moon (images)

By Brett Tingley published

NASA and SpaceX released a new set of illustrations showing off how Starship might look as it lands astronauts on the moon during the Artemis 3 mission.

Artemis

Canada wants your help to name its 1st moon rover

By Elizabeth Howell published

Canada will soon roll a rover onto the moon, and you can help name the pioneering machine.

International Space Station
Three reddish galaxies zoomed-in from a background image.

James Webb Space Telescope unveils surprising 'Red Monsters' in the early universe

By Larissa G. Capella published

Three ultramassive galaxies found by the James Webb Space Telescope have astronomers reconsidering how galaxies grew so quickly in the first billion years after the Big Bang.

James Webb Space Telescope
Side by side images show a tall white rocket landed on the moon on the left, with a rover on its left on the grey surface. Earth is setting on the horizon against the black of space. On the right, a shorter lander, cylindrical, with a lifting platform lowered to the surface with a rover aboard.

NASA chooses SpaceX and Blue Origin to deliver rover, astronaut base to the moon

By Josh Dinner published

NASA is planning to assign SpaceX and Blue Origin 'demonstration missions' for their Artemis Program lunar landers, with eyes to put a habitat on the moon by 2033.

Artemis
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