Sign up here to receive Max Q weekly in your inbox, starting December 15. This week saw a ton of activity in the space industry, with multiple launches, key preparations for commercial crew missions, robots and much more. Besides all the real space news, th… Read More
SpaceX made an early holiday delivery to the International Space Station on Sunday, dropping off super muscular “mighty mice,” pest-killing worms and a smart, empathetic robot. The station commander, Italy’s Luca Parmitano, used a large robot arm to grab ont… Read More
SpaceX’s huge Mars-colonizing Starship vehicle could make its first extraterrestrial touchdown in just three short years. SpaceX is one of five companies that are newly eligible to deliver robotic payloads to the lunar surface for NASA, via the agency’s Comm… Read More
The companies are aiming to land in the early 2020s In its ongoing effort to send cargo and eventually people to the lunar surface, NASA announced five new partnerships with commercial space companies that have designed robotic landers that can take large pa… Read More
