The core stage of NASA's next Space Launch System (SLS) rocket recently completed integration with the vehicle's side ...

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An enigmatic Japanese billionaire picked 10 artists to fly to the moon, only to pull the plug. Now they’re figuring out what’s next.

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John Scalzi cased out the Armstrong Air and Space Museum ... of their moon rock, given the attention he paid to where the surveillance cameras were and what was protecting the Apollo 11 lunar ...

The United States successfully made six Apollo crewed missions in the ... a Lanyue lunar lander and a Mengzhou manned spacecraft to lunar orbit. After reaching their preset orbital positions ...

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A control team at the ESA's European Space Operations Center powered down all of Gaia's subsystems and sent it into a "retirement orbit" around the Sun. Advertisement "Gaia's extensive data ...