NASA is looking for new ideas for moon landers to help astronauts return to the surface of the moon as progress for SpaceX's Starship has come slowly.

After both onshore and offshore weather headaches in the past week, SpaceX came back Monday to finish up its third of three contracted launches of competitor Amazon’s Project Kuiper

Live updates from the KF-03 mission, which launched 9:58 p.m. from Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

NASA's acting administrator accused SpaceX on Monday of falling "behind" and said he plans to reopen contracts to get U.S. astronauts "back to the moon in 2028."

SpaceX could lose its much-prized contract to put astronauts on the moon in the Artemis III mission that will mark the first crewed landing on the lunar surface since the final Apollo mission in 1972.

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said SpaceX is “behind schedule” and thwarting the space agency’s ability to beat China back to the moon.

Starship — the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built — thundered into the evening sky from the southern tip of Texas. The booster peeled away and made a controlled entry into the Gulf of Mexico as planned, with the spacecraft skimming space before descending into the Indian Ocean. Nothing was being recovered.

SpaceX Starship, world's biggest rocket launched from Texas, was seen in Florida, even near NASA. Some thought it was a UFO or meteor.

Today's mission, which lifted off from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas, was the 11th overall test flight for the Starship program. It was also the final launch of the current version of the giant vehicle, which will soon be replaced by an even larger variant. And this swan song was a memorable one.