#lunar-landing

#lunar-landing

Blue Origin, the private spaceflight company founded by Jeff Bezos, is suspending the short flights of its suborbital New Shepard spacecraft, which took paying customers to the edge of space and back. Since its first human launch in July 2021, New Shepard's space tourism flights have carried 98 people above the Karman line the widely-accepted boundary of space about 62 miles above the Earth and safely back again in a capsule.

SpaceX has shown off intriguing renders of the interior of the Human Landing Systems (HLS) variant of its enormous Starship spacecraft - and we can't shake the feeling that it's a surprisingly poor use of space. NASA is hoping to tap the spacecraft during its Artemis 3 mission to return the first astronauts to the lunar surface in over half a century.

India's successful moon landing in August 2023 marked its entry into an elite group of countries capable of lunar exploration, symbolizing cultural significance alongside scientific achievement.