How Did the Spacecraft Get to the Moon? Astronauts got to the moon by traveling on a giant rocket (Saturn V) that launched ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost marks a new era in commercial space, proving private industry’s role in space exploration and ...

The past couple of weeks has offered us vivid examples in the news of two events, one of which I call a hard landing and ...

listen Apollo VII was the first test drive of the Apollo spacecraft, limited to Earth orbit, yet it offered glimpses of the more ambitious flights to come. The crews would get nowhere near the ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has been sharing dazzling visuals of our celestial neighbor since it successfully entered the moon’s orbit on February ... by the last Apollo astronaut on the Moon.” ...

All asteroids orbit the sun, and some have orbital paths that cross Earth’s. That’s the case with 2024 YR4, one of about 20,000 Apollo-type asteroids that orbit the sun from about the same ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena could be the second U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon in a week after Firefly Aerospace's Blue ...

It’s not quite William Anders’ “Earthrise” picture, but does show the level of quality on the X-37B’s cameras, as well as a sense of just how far in orbit it is. The exact date and ...

Gemini and Apollo missions) enters earth orbit in the first test of the spacecraft. October: The Soviets launch the unmanned Soyuz 2. A day later Soyuz 3, piloted by Georgii Beregovoi, launches ...