A symbol of Florida's Space Coast, the VAB at Kennedy Space Center has powered moon missions past and present. Here is its ...

Interplanetary travel to Mars aboard nuclear-powered spaceships may sound like science fiction – yet NASA is planning to make ...

If you were old enough to form memories, you probably still remember huddling around a vacuum-tube television or a radio that ...

The flags are still up there after over 50 years. But they're not what they used to be.

In the 21st century race to the moon, there is a question that engineers must ask: what happens when the main engine fails? China and the United States are answering this in contrasting ways. Their ...

A historic lunar module simulator in the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Uniondale played a role Wednesday in the next phase of space exploration that eventually could take humankind to Mars and beyond.

When the first Apollo mission to carry astronauts to orbit launched on October 11, 1968, everyone at NASA sighed in relief. Apollo 7 rose on a pillar of flame from Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 34 on ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told lawmakers on Monday that SpaceX and Blue Origin, the agency’s two lunar lander contractors, say they could have their spacecraft ready for the next Artemis ...

The takeaway: The code that guided Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface has been released in digital form for public access. Nearly six decades after the Apollo 11 mission, the original ...

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After 25 years of obsessing over Mars, Elon Musk announced that SpaceX has shifted focus from invading the Red Planet to invading the moon. He claims he will build a self-sustainable lunar metropolis ...

Artemis III is NASA’s mission intended to return astronauts to the moon. The plan has been to use SpaceX’s still-experimental Starship — the most powerful rocket system ever built — for the last leg ...