Spend $12 billion on new space exploration plan over next five years. $1bn will be new money, the rest reallocated from existing NASA programs. •Retire shuttle program by 201 ...

Unlike Apollo—which used a single spacecraft comprising a mothership and lunar lander—Artemis III will see Orion dock with ...

Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.

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There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...

The Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover aboard the toppled Intuitive Machines Athena lunar lander survived the landing that took out its parent spacecraft and even managed to ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena mission is already over, but silver linings have emerged from the short-lived lunar south pole landing effort. Athena beamed back images from the surface of the moon ...

"Our Lunar Voyage 1 MAPP rover successfully made it to the moon, collected data from the lunar surface and in transit, and proved MAPP was ready to drive," U.S. space exploration company Lunar ...

The United States successfully made six Apollo crewed ... toward the lunar surface for an engine-assisted soft landing. On the moon, the astronauts will drive a Tansuo rover to carry out ...

The next phase of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services moon exploration program began on Jan. 15, with the launch of ... Athena includes a mini-rover called MAPP, which was designed to collect ...

Future lunar missions may have an easier time extracting water ice than previously believed, thanks to new findings from India’s Chandrayaan-3 lander. The research suggests that certain high-latitude ...

Photograph taken by Dymon Co.'s rover Yaoki on the Moon. Dymon says a part of a lunar crater is shown in the top left and a leg of Intuitive Machines Inc.'s lander in the bottom center.