The rocket is one of several key elements needed for the US space agency's Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the moon for the first time since 1972. advertisement Phys.org ...

Blue Origin just launched a first-of-its kind mission to suborbital space. The company, which was founded by Amazon's Jeff ...

ispace's Resilience lander launched on Jan. 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, along with Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander. It is taking an energy-efficient, circuitous route to the moon, and only ...

Critical to the Artemis moon program, SpaceX also is building a variant of its Starship rocket to carry astronauts back to the lunar surface in 2027. It will be NASA's first such landing since the ...

With the nearly full moon shining overhead ... sharing a sky-lighting ride to space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The U.S. lander, built by Austin, Texas-based Firefly Aerospace and known ...

Moon Steps' places lunar exploration within the wider context of humanity’s different voyages of discovery, tracing how transport by wheels and wings eventually led to rocket-science ...

NASA has long said it plans to use the SLS rocket to power 10 or more Artemis missions, which will aim to return humans to the moon’s surface as well as set up a permanent lunar outpost.

A pair of landers, from the American company Firefly Aerospace and the Japanese company Ispace, will head to the moon using the same SpaceX rocket. The Firefly mission, which is carrying cargo ...

Credit: Firefly Aerospace SpaceX plans to launch two private moon landers early Wednesday ... the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. That liftoff is scheduled for Wednesday at 5:00 ...