SpaceX, Blue Origin and a real race back to the Moon

Pallab GhoshScience correspondent SpaceX has been handed a much larger role in NASA’s future Moon plans. But the company is under pressure: The company's Starship must prove it can complete a full mission profile within the next couple of years, and it is running behind NASA’s ideal schedule. Blue Origin, meanwhile, has secured its own NASA lander contract and is closing the gap fast, flight testing its New Glenn rocket and pitching a rival architecture for later Artemis missions. The result is