03 May 2021, 12:05 am
China s Long March 5 or Long March-5B Y2 rocket, which carried its Tiangon Space Station s module called Harmony of the Heavens, could crash into Earth s atmosphere. Experts claim that some of the rocket s debris could hit some popular areas.
(Photo : Photo by Loren Elliott/Getty Images)
A prototype of SpaceX s Starship spacecraft is seen at the company s Texas launch facility on September 28, 2019 in Boca Chica near Brownsville, Texas. The Starship spacecraft is a massive vehicle meant to take people to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Previously, the Asian country hailed its Long March 5 launch as successful since it was able to bring the Harmony of the Heavens or Tianhe, which will serve as the hub of China s upcoming space station, into orbit.
Blue Origin Challenges NASA Over SpaceX Moon Lander Deal
The space agency picked Elon Musk’s company over two other bidders to take its astronauts back to the lunar surface.
Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin and chief executive of Amazon, in 2019.Credit.Tom Brenner for The New York Times
April 26, 2021Updated 6:40 p.m. ET
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, two of the richest men in the world, both with dreams of leading humanity out into the solar system, are fighting over the moon.
On Monday, Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Mr. Bezos, who will step down as Amazon’s chief executive later this year, filed a 50-page protest with the federal Government Accountability Office, challenging a $2.9 billion contract to SpaceX from NASA to build a lander for American astronauts to return to the moon.
| UPDATED: 07:14, Wed, Jan 6, 2021
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It comes after photos emerged of two test models of the rocket standing side by side at the rocket company’s launch pad in Boca Chica, USA. SpaceX is currently constructing its 10th test version of Starship – dubbed SN10 – as part of the spacecraft’s ongoing development process.