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Artemis II ended a 53-year crewed drought beyond Earth orbit in April 2026. Since then NASA has scrapped the Lunar Gateway, repurposed Artemis III as an orbital dress rehearsal, and set two commercial landers racing toward a 2028 Moon landing.
After a booster lost, a satellite stranded, and a test-stand explosion, Blue Origin is rebuilding its New Glenn rocket and targeting December 2026 for a return to flight — with NASA's Moon plans and Amazon's satellite constellation riding on it.
In May 2026 China unified its crewed lunar effort, robotic Chang'e missions, and Tiangong station work into a single integrated moon exploration project — 'mobilizing all resources' for a crewed landing by 2030. Here's the hardware, the robotic scouts, and the plan.
NASA released its final 360-page request for proposals for commercial space stations on October 9, 2026, officially starting the race to replace the International Space Station before its planned fiery plunge into the Pacific in 2030–2031.
Congress cancelled NASA's $11-billion Mars Sample Return in the FY2026 spending package — stranding Perseverance's sealed sample tubes, including a potential biosignature, in Jezero Crater with no ride home. Now China is racing to get there first.
Launched August 30, 2026, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope survived a near-cancellation to begin its journey to a million miles from Earth — where it will survey the dark universe, census thousands of exoplanets, and generate one of the largest astronomical datasets ever.
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