T he space race has been covered in both documentary films, shows, and movies. Never before has an intimate telling of the ...

As a private lunar industry nears liftoff, preservationists seek to guard the artifacts from the first space race ... in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Rapid advancements in spaceflight occurred during the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Ballistic ...

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... with the International Space Station. SpaceX leads several other companies in the race to replace the shuttle ...

NASA aims to travel to the moon again—and beyond. Here’s a look at the 21st-century race to send humans into space. Private spaceflight is not a new concept. In the United States, commercial ...

Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...

I was 14 years old when Sputnik was launched into orbit, and I convinced myself, naively, that the space race would one day punch my personal ticket to the stars. Someday, I told myself ...

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. A Norwegian jazz musician and citizen scientist, Jon Larsen has figured out how to do something the experts thought was ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Space suits—designed to ... “50 years after Apollo 11, a new moon race is on.” ...