Blue Origin announces ‘Orbital Reef’ commercial space station
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In partnership with Sierra Space, Blue Origin announced plans for a commercial space station to be built in low Earth orbit by the end of this decade.
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Opinion: The future of the Artemis program under Joe Biden
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With the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the next president and vice president of the United States, I felt it best to talk about what is likely to happen in the coming months regarding human spaceflight and NASA as the Biden administration takes over the executive branch of the federal government.
Read MoreOpinion: Lander choices set NASA up for near- and long-term Moon exploration
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I was not expecting NASA to select SpaceX as one of the three companies to build human landing systems for the Artemis program. However, since the agency is looking to make the effort sustainable during phase two, it makes complete sense.
Read MoreNASA awards contracts for human-rated Moon landers
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Just over a year after the announcement of the Artemis program and its goal to return humans to the surface of the Moon by 2024, NASA has finally awarded the initial contracts for the most important piece of architecture to achieve that goal: human landing systems. These are the first contracts to build human-rated lunar landers since the Apollo era.
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