NASA must choose: continue Artemis while abandoning Boeing’s Lunar Gateway, or prioritize Mars, relying on Elon Musk and SpaceX.
Starship
Elon Musk’s NY-Paris 30-minute flights may be possible with low-orbit spacecraft, leveraging speed, reduced drag, and reusable rockets.
A host of exciting space missions are in store for 2025, including deep-space flyby missions by ESA, JAXA, and NASA.
Trump’s victory puts the future of NASA’s SLS rocket in doubt, with Musk’s SpaceX lurking in the shadows and potentially big consequences for the Great Space Race.
Launches like the first Starship test are successful failures that will help SpaceX reach its eventual goal of sending astronauts to Mars.
The spacecraft could play an important part in future missions to the moon and Mars.