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SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission will take off on Friday. Here’s what the crew is going to be wearing
The four-member crew of non-professional astronauts will be wearing newly designed SpaceX extravehi…
SpaceX is launching 4 people on a risky mission to fly through radiation belts and do the first commercial spacewalk
SpaceX's latest daring billionaire mission aims to open the Crew Dragon spaceship in the vacuum of …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
China's historic moon mission is just the start of its plans to dominate space
China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe successfully returned to Earth carrying the first-ever samples from …
Tom Porter
Yes, the moon is shrinking but that's not the disturbing news scientists discovered that could threaten future NASA missions
A shrinking lunar crust causes moonquakes and could lead to dangerous landslides that may harm futu…
Jenny McGrath
NASA just made sure its astronauts will be safe if the 2024 Artemis mission to the Moon fails
And, if you plan to push humans into space aboard a rocket, it’s best to have a fail safe in pla…
The date of Jeff Bezos' trip to space isn't a coincidence - it's the anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon
On July 20, Bezos and three other passengers will spend just three minutes at the edge of space abo…
Avery Hartmans
Diddy's private jet troubles kept him from collecting his award at the Apollo Gala but he still stole the show with a $250,000 donation
Trouble on the tarmac kept Diddy from collecting his award at the Apollo Theater's annual spring be…
Jennifer Cunningham
The Apollo moon program's Mission Control Center has been restored and opened to the public. Check out the 1969 time capsule.
The fateful control room in Houston, Texas (that's who astronauts are talking to when they communic…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
NASA reimagines Apollo 11 landing on the Moon through Neil Armstrong's eyes on its 50th anniversary
Add, once the trajectory information was in place, NASA used images from the LROC Narrow A…
15 impressive women who made the Apollo moon missions possible
"When NASA recruited the first class of astronauts, they didn't know what they were in for. They fi…
Hilary Brueck
An Apollo astronaut says the greatest moment of NASA's program was not the moon landing - it was the 'cosmic birth' of humanity
"You realize that people often say, 'I hope to go to heaven when I die.' In reality, if you think a…
Dave Mosher
Jeff Bezos is stepping aside as Amazon CEO, but it's unlikely he's slowing down. The billionaire tech tycoon has a passion for extreme adventures, from dog-sledding to ocean exploration.
Bezos' next voyage will take him to the outer reaches of Earth's gravitational pull when he blasts …
Avery Hartmans
Photos from NASA's Artemis mission zipping past the moon reveal a view no astronaut has seen firsthand in 50 years
No humans have flown past the moon since the Apollo missions. But if Artemis I succeeds, NASA plans…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
China plans three missions to the Moon after discovering a new lunar mineral that may be a future energy source
The mineral, Changesite-(Y), was found in samples obtained by China's space exploration in 2020 and…
Jyoti Mann
The Artemis I moon mission is set for liftoff tonight. Watch live as NASA launches its new $50 billion mega-rocket.
NASA is returning to the moon with a new rocket and Orion spaceship. Liftoff is scheduled for Wedne…
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Buzz Aldrin peed his pants on the moon and 18 other wild facts you never learned about NASA's Apollo 11 mission
Although the world watched Armstrong and Aldrin walk on the lunar surface on live TV, many surprisi…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
SpaceX's latest rocket launch 'ranks up there with the first Apollo mission,' says a former Pentagon official - here's why
Blue Origin is working on its own relatively affordable heavy-lift rocket system, called New Glenn.…
Dave Mosher
NASA is paying a company $1 - spread over 3 installments - to collect rocks from the moon's south pole
Colorado start-up Lunar Outpost was already planning to collect material from the room - so giving …
Grace Dean
Meet NASA's first female head of human spaceflight, who oversaw SpaceX's astronaut launch and will lead the US return to the moon
NASA has appointed Kathy Lueders to spearhead its upcoming moon missions and lead a new era in huma…