Wednesday, November 19, 2025

SpaceX Starship Timeline Delays Astronaut Moon Landing

NASA may have no choice but to postpone the launch of its next mission to land astronauts on the moon by more than a year.

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SpaceX, Blue Origin submitted plans to get US astronauts back to the Moon faster, NASA says ... (The proposals followed DOT Sec. Duffy's criticism of SpaceX for delays in Artemis III program.) www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/s ...

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-- Lora Kolodny (@lorak.bsky.social) Oct 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM

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Getting to the moon isn't so hard.
It's getting back that's the hard part.

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-19 04:12 PM

Ya hear that, Alice?

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-19 08:08 PM

I just drove past a fuselage being transported to the Hawthorne plant the other night.

#3 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-11-19 11:31 PM

Next Starship launch might be in January.

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-19 11:37 PM

Starship is currently at the "doesn't always explode" stage. They still have to figure out refueling in orbit(multiple times), landing on the Moon's surface, and how to get the astronauts from the top of Starship to the surface. And they still have design and build a Starship that can carry astronauts.

Delayed by a year? Lucky if they manage to work all of this out in five years.

Way too complicated. It needs to be more like the Apollo missions.

#5 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-11-20 01:43 PM

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