{"id":56536,"date":"2026-04-19T02:25:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=56536"},"modified":"2026-04-19T02:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:25:17","slug":"spacex-blue-origin-compete-for-artemis-iii-missionutm_sourcerss1-0mainlinkanonutm_mediumfeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/04\/19\/spacex-blue-origin-compete-for-artemis-iii-missionutm_sourcerss1-0mainlinkanonutm_mediumfeed\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX, Blue Origin Compete For &#8216;Artemis III&#8217; Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"fhbody-181751436\">\n<div id=\"text-181751436\" class=\"p\">\n<p>\t\t\t\tAfter Artemis II&#8217;s astronauts returned to earth, &#8220;NASA has Artemis III in its sights,&#8221; reports the Associated Press:<\/p>\n<p><i>In a mission recently added to the docket for next year, Artemis III&#8217;s yet-to-be -named astronauts will practice docking their Orion capsule with a lunar lander or two in orbit around Earth. Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos&#8217; Blue Origin are racing to have their company&#8217;s lander ready first. Musk&#8217;s Starship and Bezos&#8217; Blue Moon are vying for the all-important Artemis IV moon landing in 2028. Two astronauts will aim for the south polar region, the preferred location for [NASA Administrator Jared] Isaacman&#8217;s envisioned $20 billion to $30 billion moon base. Vast amounts of ice are almost certainly hidden in permanently shadowed craters there \u2014 ice that could provide water and rocket fuel.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The docking mechanism for Artemis III&#8217;s close-to-home trial run is already at Florida&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center. The latest model Starship is close to launching on a test flight from South Texas, and a scaled-down version of Blue Moon will attempt a lunar landing later this year.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#SpaceX #Blue #Origin #Compete #Artemis #III #Mission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Artemis II&#8217;s astronauts returned to earth, &#8220;NASA has Artemis III in its sights,&#8221; reports the Associated Press: In a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56537,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56536\/revisions\/56537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}