{"id":224770,"date":"2025-11-09T05:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T11:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/spacex-reveals-simpler-lander-to-speed-up-moon-return"},"modified":"2025-11-09T05:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T11:11:12","slug":"spacex-reveals-simpler-lander-to-speed-up-moon-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/spacex-reveals-simpler-lander-to-speed-up-moon-return","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX reveals simpler lander to speed up Moon return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-reveals-simpler-lander-to-speed-up-moon-return3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With its metaphorical feet held over the allegorical fire by NASA, SpaceX has released a new, simplified plan to build a lander to put US astronauts back on the Moon now that the competition for the spacecraft has been reopened due to delays.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Artemis program to establish a permanent US human presence on the Moon is ambitious beyond any doubt. However, like previous American efforts, it\u2019s been fraught with cost overruns, delays and technical problems. One of the most aggravating of these bottlenecks has been building the lunar lander because if you don\u2019t have a way to actually put astronauts on the actual Moon, you\u2019re pretty much wasting your time.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s original plan was to build a lander based on its still-experimental Starship rocket \u2013 more than just based on it, the craft would essentially be a complete, baseline Starship complete with airfoils and heat shields. The goal was to land up to 100 tonnes of supplies on the Moon or enough to establish a complete, sustainable base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its metaphorical feet held over the allegorical fire by NASA, SpaceX has released a new, simplified plan to build a lander to put US astronauts back on the Moon now that the competition for the spacecraft has been reopened due to delays. NASA\u2019s Artemis program to establish a permanent US human presence on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}