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 ...

Sonoma’s Rusty Schweickart appears in “Apollo 1,” a new documentary film about the mission, and will participate in a panel ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the ...

This mission utilized a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to go a farther distance into pace and put itself in a “highly elliptical” orbit. In October, the spacecraft carried out new and innovative ...

“Earthrise” begins with a quotation from William Anders, who, as a member of the first crew to circle the moon, took 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 ...

Intuitive Machines shared the photos within about 13 hours of the spacecraft launching to orbit aboard a SpaceX ... the site of the space agency's Apollo moon mission launches.