![Elon Musk's tweets on Dogecoin have sent its price skyrocketing this year [File: Bronte Wittpenn/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/371619223.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Musk said on Twitter in April that SpaceX was going to put a ‘literal Dogecoin on the literal moon’.
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China says debris of Long March 5B landed in Indian Ocean and most of it burned up in the atmosphere.
![SpaceX successfully landed its first Starship prototype this week, proving in its most important test yet that Elon Musk's firm has what it takes to fulfil an ambitious NASA contract to land humans on the moon by 2024 [File: Gene Blevins/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Starship-SN15-landing-2.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
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![The Long March-5B Y2 rocket blasts off from Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province on April 29 [China Daily via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ChinaRocket.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Military analysts expect the body of the Long March 5B rocket to come down to Earth on Saturday or Sunday.
![Landing Starship marks a key milestone for the private rocket company of billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk in its development of a reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle [Gene Blevins/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Starship-SN15-landing.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
All four earlier attempts to land the rocket, designed for travel to the moon and Mars, ended in spectacular crashes.
![A paying passenger will score the sixth seat on Blue Origin's crew capsule, which will enter suborbital space before descending by parachute back to Earth on July 20 [Courtesy: Blue Origin]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/BlueOrigin_NewShepard_CrewCapsule.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Aspiring astronauts can bid online for a seat on the company’s first crewed spaceflight until May 19.
![SpaceX's design for a lunar lander ultimately won NASA over, but the two other firms in the race have filed protests against the United States space agency, alleging it gave Elon Musk's firm an unfair advantage [Courtesy: NASA]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/spacex-lunar-lander.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
When NASA chose only Elon Musk’s firm to help put astronauts on the moon again, two other firms cried foul.
It was the first US splashdown in darkness since Apollo 8’s crew returned from the moon in 1968.
![With the flight back to Earth expected to take six and a half hours, the crew was scheduled to splash down in the dark of night early on Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico, near Panama City, Florida [NASA via AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/000_98U8PD.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The astronauts spent more than 160 days in space and their Crew Dragon spacecraft should return on Sunday.
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![Loay Elbasyouni is Palestinian engineer who is part of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team [NASA via AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP_21119631489976.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Loay Elbasyouni has made a remarkable journey from the Gaza Strip to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
![A Long March 5B rocket, carrying China's Tianhe space station core module, lifts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in southern China's Hainan province on Thursday [Stringer/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/000_98Y2UL.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Tianhe module is one of three key parts of permanent space station China is building to rival the ISS.
![The Tianhe, or 'Heavenly Harmony' module is set to be hurtled into space aboard a Long March 5B rocket from the Wenchang Launch Center on the southern island of Hainan [File: China Daily via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/china-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The launch, to take place as early as Thursday, is the latest big step forward for China’s space exploration programme.
![Earlier this month, NASA awarded Elon Musk's SpaceX a sought-after project that aims to put humans back on the moon for the first time since 1972 [File: Joe Skipper/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/elon.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Elon Musk recently won a coveted US government contract to build a spaceship to the moon. Jeff Bezos was not happy.