Moon

"I do," said Mr. Nelson. "The competition is always good."Mr Smith said NASA has hired more than one company in the past with programs similar to space station missions, despite a lack of security for future budgets.The Blue Origin-led…

Elon Musk's private space company is developing a giant rocket called the Starship to one day take people to Mars.But first it will drop NASA astronauts on the moon.NASA announced on Friday that it has placed a $ 2.9 billion contract with…

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk ceremoniously raises his arms beneath a prototype Starship rocket under construction in Boca Chica, Texas.Steve Jurvetson on flickrElon Musk's SpaceX knocked out teams led by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Leidos…

On Thursday, NASA's new large rocket, the Space Launch System, will make a second attempt to get nowhere.This test, known as hot fire, is a critical step for the rocket, which has been in development for more than a decade. The four motors…

China and Russia have agreed to jointly build a research station on or around the moon in order to create the conditions for a new space race.The United States and the Soviet Union, followed by their successor state Russia, have long…

A critical piece of NASA's giant moon rocket is in good shape, even after a test shot was abruptly canceled after a little over a minute on Saturday, space agency officials said Tuesday.Officials said it was too early to say whether the…

After billions of dollars and a decade of work, NASA's plans to send astronauts back to the moon had another setback on Saturday. A planned eight-minute test shot of the four engines of a new mega-missile, which was needed for the lunar…

About a month into the New Year on Earth, three spaceships will move near Mars. Launched last July, these explorers will usher in a busy year of space exploration, launches, and astronomical events.What follows is a preview of some of the…

China may have been a lag behind the moon, but when its capsule filled with lunar rocks and earth returned to earth early Thursday, it set the stage for a new space race for decades to come. This time it will be a competition for resources…

An Israeli nonprofit will try again to land a robotic spaceship on the moon after its first attempt ended in a crash last year.The spacecraft called Beresheet reached lunar orbit in April 2019, but crashed to the surface during its final…