After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...

The Soviet Union’s answer to NASA’s Saturn V was the N-1, a monstrous moon rocket that never made it off the ground. Rushed, ...

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first man to walk in space. In 1967 he was recruited to train for his nation's lunar program. He recalled the Soviet reaction to the moon race: "Our people were ...

Why being first to return to the moon matters.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now headed for the moon after firing its engines to send it out of Earth orbit.

These are exciting times in space exploration ... The U.S. landed men on the moon in 1969 as part of its multi-faceted Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union. While this could all seem an ...

While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.

Just hours before, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had landed on the moon ... Soviet engineers knew it. Now, the former premier, who had led the early years of the race to ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost — named after a species of U.S. Southeastern fireflies — should reach the moon first. The 6-foot-6-inches-tall (2-meter-tall) lander will attempt a touchdown in early March at ...