The Blue Ghost spacecraft, named for a species of firefly, took eclipse chasing to new heights. Not only did it see the Earth ...
The documentary tells the story of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who died after a fire erupted in their spacecraft on the launch pad.
Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.
I truly believe every person out there, at one time in his or her life, wanted to be an astronaut. I was that kid, and ...
More than 120 entries have been whittled down to the top 25 women aged under 40 tipped to spearhead the next generation of leading partners.
That’s where NASA is targeting for its first landing by astronauts since the 1960s and 1970s Apollo program, no earlier than 2027. The craters are believed to hold tons of frozen water that ...
NASA clinches the space race with the Soviets in 1969 with a moon landing by Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Twelve astronauts explore the surface over six missions, before the ...
Athena’s target landing site is located closer to the lunar ... “Then we’ll figure out what the what the mission profile will look like,” he said. “It will be off-nominal, because ...
Until Intuitive Machines' first mission, only national space agencies had achieved the feat, with NASA's last landing dating back to Apollo 17 in 1972. The company's first lander, Odysseus ...
Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft ... the second person to step on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission after Neil Armstrong, and Harrison ...
It was at the time of the Apollo 11 landing," space historian Roger Launius said in an interview, explaining that people were immediately doubtful that people had landed on the moon. New York ...
The footage is so crisp that it almost looks like CGI. Check out the incredible shot of the Firefly Aerospace lander’s shadow coming back into focus after the Moon dust settles. A weekly ...