moonshots

At NASA Stennis, a crucial full-duration RS-25 hot fire engine test marks significant progress in the Artemis program, aiming for lunar and Martian exploration. Credit: NASA/Danny NowlinNASA’s recent full-duration RS-25 engine hot fire test at Stennis Space Center marks a significant step in certifying new engines for the SLS rocket, intended for future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond, showcasing the collaborative efforts between NASA, Aerojet Rocketdyne, and Syncom Space Services.NASA conducted a full-duration…

Noor Siddiqui Contributor Noor Siddiqui, a Thiel Fellow and Stanford-trained computer scientist, is the CEO and founder of Orchid. Moonshot startups, those daring ideas that promise to reshape our world, are inherently about venturing into uncharted territory, giving us new superpowers and creating new markets. They’re high stakes, high reward, and, more often than not, deeply technical. As someone who navigates these waters, I see firsthand that when…