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Could this lander return astronauts to the moon instead of SpaceX’s Starship?

Acting NASA chief Sean Duffy surprised many people earlier this week when he said the space agency was intending to reopen the contracts for the Artemis III lunar lander that will return astronauts to ...
Space.com

SpaceX could lose contract for Artemis 3 astronaut moon-landing mission, acting NASA chief says: 'The problem is, they're behind'

The first crewed moon landing in more than half a century may not be pulled off by SpaceX after all. In April 2021, NASA awarded Elon Musk's company a $2.9 billion contract to provide the first crewed ...
Florida Today

Starship was meant to land astronauts on the moon. Now, NASA wants other options

NASA's Artemis campaign is the agency's ambitious campaign to return Americans to the surface of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Starship, the approximately 400-foot megarocket that ...