26: Artemis Showdown: SpaceX Starship vs Blue...

This week in spaceflight: Firefly Aerospace makes history with a successful Moon landing, while Intuitive Machines’ Athena mission doesn’t go as planned. Meanwhile, SpaceX’s Starship Flight 8 suffers another major failure, and rumors swirl about a Chinese rocket explosion at the ...  Show more

NSF's Jack Beyer updates us on the ongoings at Starbase. 

Two NASA Artemis experts discuss how the agency is preparing future moonwalkers to use new tools to explore the unique science near the lunar South Pole. HWHAP 381 

Last week was a big one for commercial space. Our senior communications advisor, Mat Kaplan, discusses the first crewed Boeing Starliner test and SpaceX Starship launch. Then Asa Stahl, our science editor, lets you know how to observe the upcoming nova in Corona Borealis. Radi ...

Two plucky spacecraft, one Russian and one Indian, are currently blasting towards the Moon’s South Pole. Both Russia’s Luna-25 and India’s Chandrayaan-3 are due to touch down next week. They’re heading to that particular region of the Moon in order to hunt for water, the presence ...  Show more

In this episode, Jacob Bleacher, NASA’s chief exploration scientist, tells us about the science goals of the Artemis Lunar Terrain Vehicle and how NASA is collaborating with industry to explore more of the Moon’s surface than ever before.