NASA and SpaceX plan to hold an event on the launch of a manned rocket on March 12.
Jared Isakman, Mr. Trump's NASA appointee, said future Polaris missions by him and Mr. Musk's SpaceX "remain a question mark and may be on hold for a while".
Reports of frequent contacts between billionaire Trump supporter Elon Musk and Russian President Vladimir Putin should be investigated and many US agencies "would be concerned" if true, the head of NASA said on Friday, following a Wall Street Journal report that Musk has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since 2022.
NASA and SpaceX plan to complete the separation from the space station on or after 9:05 PM Eastern Time on October 22.
SpaceX: The Falcon 9 rocket aboard the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft is launched. The main goal of the Hera mission is to travel to the Didymos asteroid and its satellite Dimorphos to conduct an in-depth study of the impact of NASA's DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) in 2022.