Falcon 9 booster B1093 lands for its 16th landing, after launching Starlink Group 17-38 from Vandenberg SLC-4E, CA. August 8, 2026. B1093 prevously flew on July 13, 2026.
Artemis IV liquid hydrogen tank for the Senate Lunch System. SLS core stage is 8.5 meters in diameter. NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has established an annual launch rate for this expendable rocket, man-rated to return humans to Earth from lunar orbit.
Elon Musk's #SpaceX, and Jeff Bezos's #BlueOrigin, are building lunar landers that are man-rated to land humans on the Moon and return them to lunar orbit.