From the day the Soviets put an astronaut into space in April 1961, the race was on with America to get a man on the moon.

NASA is working to send a small fleet of robotic landers to the surface of the moon in the next few years in an effort to test out new technology and take the first steps toward e ...

NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three companies to land four new missions on the Moon in late 2028 as part of the agency’s Moon Base Program. Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive ...

Jules Verne is often called the fathers of science fiction, and it’s not hard to see why. Long before NASA’s Apollo 11 mission landed humans on the Moon, Verne imagined a crewed voyage there in From ...

Randy Bresnik, Luca Parmitano, Frank Rubio and Andre Douglas will be part of the next mission in the agency’s program to return humans to the surface of the moon by 2028. The recent explosion of a ...

This video explores the Apollo Lunar Module, the spacecraft that successfully landed astronauts on the moon. The Lunar Module consisted of two stages: the ascent stage and the descent stage. Both ...

On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo program. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...

The takeaway: The code that guided Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface has been released in digital form for public access. Nearly six decades after the Apollo 11 mission, the original ...

After months of anticipation, the monumental 10-day Artemis II mission, which sent four astronauts on a record-breaking flyby of the moon, has concluded. It’s a “mission well accomplished,” said NASA ...

A new era of lunar exploration has begun as NASA launches four astronauts on Artemis II—the first crewed mission to fly around the Moon in over 50 years. Riding aboard the powerful SLS rocket, the ...

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