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Walking on the moon by 2030, building a lunar base, and then perhaps on to Mars: after 30 years of honing its expertise, China is challenging the United States’ supremacy in spaceflight.This post was originally […]

NASA’s Artemis 2 lunar mission is set to be the first crewed flyby of the moon in more than half a century, and could launch as soon as April 1.This post was originally published on […]

The four astronauts selected for the Artemis 2 moon mission will be the first to travel there in more than five decades.This post was originally published on this site

More than half a century after the groundbreaking Apollo program’s last crewed flight to the moon, three men and one woman are preparing for a lunar journey set to turn a new page in American […]

Jason Jenkins was driving to work before dawn when a bright green streak beamed across the sky.This post was originally published on this site

Materials scientist Dr. Yige Sun, from the Department of Materials and Linacre College at the University of Oxford, and the Faraday Institution, argues that as space becomes critical infrastructure for the global digital economy, its […]

NASA’s chief on Tuesday said the US space agency will invest $20 billion to develop a base on the moon, while suspending its plans to create the lunar orbital space station known as Gateway.This post […]

NASA’s chief on Tuesday said the US space agency “intends to pause” its Gateway project that would have created a space station in orbit around the moon, instead shifting focus toward “building a lunar base.”This […]

Russia has launched a rocket from Site 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome for the first time since it was damaged during a liftoff last November, video from Russia’s Roscosmos space agency showed Sunday.This post was […]

Sixty years after Neil Armstrong barely survived an emergency in orbit around Earth on Gemini 8, never-before-seen photos of his heroic return have been donated to the Ohio museum that bears his name.This post was […]