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This May 6th, 1968, footage from NASA shows a training vehicle used by Apollo 11 astronauts as they prepared to land the ...
Smith found that while the irregular shape and roughness of the lunar dust still irritates the lungs, its effects are ...
A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company’s lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.
The so-called "right stuff" manifests rather differently in "Apollo 13". Sure, this generation of astronauts knows the final frontier is dangerous, but they also have a professional edge, acting as if ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander made history early Sunday morning as it touched down on the moon’s surface with 10 NASA payloads. At around 3:25 a.m. ET ...
Blue Origin has been mum about the payload that will fly on this rocket, but multiple people have told Ars that the current ...
The Resilience lunar lander seen in a "clean room" during pre-launch processing. The rover Tenacious can be seen on a shelf near the top of the spacecraft. ispace ...
Resilience, a spacecraft built by Japan-based company Ispace, crashed while attempting to touch down on the moon. If successful, it would have been the first private-sector lunar lander built ...
Flip through the old comics and you’ll find ads for all kinds of mail-order oddities. The pitches were bold and involved tiny ...
Four-and-a-half months after launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket, a privately-built Japanese lander attempted to touch down on the moon Thursday, but telemetry indicated a higher-than-expected descent ...
The proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them ...