'Pushing this competition': SpaceX's Starship might not fly on NASA's newly revamped Artemis 3 mission

Artist's illustration of SpaceX's Starship vehicle on the moon during an Artemis astronaut mission for NASA.

NASA's Artemis 3 mission will no longer land astronauts on the moon — and it might not involve SpaceX's Starship megarocket, either.

On Friday (Feb. 27), the space agency announced that it's revamping the architecture of its Artemis program of lunar exploration. One of the biggest changes involves Artemis 3, which was originally supposed to land astronauts on the moon using Starship's upper stage.