Launch licenses the FAA just issued to Blue Origin and SpaceX are setting the stage for space billionaires Jeff Bezos and ...
Japan on Thursday successfully launched a rocket with a lunar lander at its fourth try this year, after previous attempts were foiled by bad weather. The lander, dubbed the "moon sniper", is ...
The endeavor will involve the Orion spacecraft carrying its first crew toward the moon after being launched by NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The Orion will come within 80 miles of the ...
A rocket launched by Elon Musk's space exploration company is on course to crash into the Moon and explode. The Falcon 9 booster was launched in 2015 but after completing its mission, the second ...
As a pioneering mission prepares for lift-off this week, the eyes of the world once more turn upwards - to the moon. A rocket carrying ... it's the reason the Space Race is being re-run.
Introduced in 2011, the SLS, larger and more powerful than the Saturn V rockets that took Apollo missions to the moon, “is a super heavy-lift rocket … for human exploration beyond Earth orbit ...