SpaceX, billionaire Elon Musk's commercial rocket company, says it's working on a "simplified" plan for its Starship to land astronauts on the moon.

Blue Origin lanzó su enorme cohete New Glenn el jueves con un par de naves espaciales de la NASA destinadas a Marte.

Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket on its first-ever interplanetary mission on Thursday, sending twin NASA spacecraft on their way to Mars. Minutes after deployment, the spaceflight company created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos successfully landed the New Glenn’s first-stage booster on only its second try.

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Thursday said it proposed to NASA a simplified plan to send humans to the moon using its Starship rocket, as the agency presses its contractors to move more quickly toward beating China to the lunar surface this decade.

SpaceX, which continues with plans to expand Starship operations to Florida, has proposed a new plan to NASA for an Artemis 3 moon lander.

After acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy this month called out SpaceX for Starship delays, Elon Musk's company has come back with an update defending its progress and offering a speedier plan to get astronauts back on the moon as part of the Artemis program.

Nasa medical chief and SpaceX astronaut heading to Scotland’s largest space expo - JD Polk and Dr Sian Proctor will discuss how humans can live and work ‘long term’ in space.

Commander Matthew Dominick, pilot Michael Barratt, mission specialists Jeanette Epps and Aleksandr Grebenkin arrived at the International Space Station after docking. Credit: NASA