Humans first visited the Moon in 1969. The last time we went was 1972, over 50 years ago. Back then, astronauts in the Apollo program made their journeys in spacecraft that relied on remarkably basic ...

SpaceX recently released an update regarding Starship and its Human Landing System variant. This variant of the Starship is ...

"NAS 9-1100 exhibit E, paragraph 10.9, primary no. 830, line item 021. Type II document." "Data retrieval no. LMA790-08022." "Manuals will be distributed as directed by the NASA Apollo Project Office" ...

NASA released Thursday newly restored video from the July 20, 1969, live television broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk. The release commemorates the 40th anniversary of the first mission to land ...

With today's inauguration, President Donald Trump is back in charge of the Artemis program. NASA's 21st-century moon program began during Trump's first term but has been plagued with developmental ...

SEATTLE — When Apollo 11 launched into the July sky 50 years ago, the public faces of the mission were, by design, the three men on top of the rocket: astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and ...

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While most Americans have their eyes fixed on the scheduled flight of Gemini 6 this week, many businessmen are looking even further—to the moon itself and the profits that will be made from lunar ...

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center experts in Huntsville, Alabama, are conducting crucial tests for a safe lunar landing. They have been firing a 14-inch 3D-printed hybrid rocket motor, developed at ...

WAPAKONETA, Ohio (AP) — Ohio police say a rare gold replica of the lunar space module has been stolen from the Armstrong Air and Space Museum. Police in Wapakoneta (wah-puh-kuh-NEHT'-uh) responded to ...

NASA's Artemis campaign will use human landing systems, provided by SpaceX and Blue Origin, to safely transport crew to and from the surface of the moon, in preparation for future crewed missions to ...

The cover of the Mar. 8 1965 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology shows a detailed contour map of the lunar surface, developed by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey's Flagstaff, Arizona, ...