NASA’s Artemis moon mission is flirting with disaster

Back to the moon — sort of. Next month, as soon as April 1, NASA will launch its Artemis II mission, officials announced last ...
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The Soviet N1 disaster of 1969, the massive moon rocket explosion that shook the space race

Just weeks before Apollo 11 reached the Moon, the Soviet Union attempted to launch its massive N1 rocket, the centerpiece of its secret lunar program. The result was one of the most powerful ...
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The Soviet rocket that nearly reached the moon, inside the N1 explosion that helped America win the space race

Two weeks before Apollo 11, the Soviet Union attempted to launch its massive N1 moon rocket, a mission that ended in one of the largest non nuclear explosions in history. Declassified records reveal ...

9 strange objects floating in space that still exist

Space is a vast and infinitely expansive area with many things we know little about. If we look at how our Solar System moves ...

The first modern rocket launched 100 years ago, beginning a century of both innovations and challenges for spaceflight

Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the Moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually began 43 years before, in snowy Massachusetts. Exactly 100 years ago, on March 16, 1926, Robert H.
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NASA's Artemis program relies on technology that just turned 100 years old

100 years after Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, NASA is preparing a return to the moon with the Artemis program.
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NASA astronauts are returning to the moon. Houston’s Johnson Space Center will get them there

Mission Control will be packed with experts, specialists and flight directors around-the-clock as NASA takes on its most ...

NASA abruptly changes its roadmap to putting boots back on the moon

NASA on Friday announced an abrupt change to its pathway to getting astronauts back on the lunar surface, opting to add in an additional crewed test flight before attempting to land.

How common are fireballs streaking across the sky?

Space rocks are constantly hurtling toward us, slamming into the atmosphere and often exploding into fireballs that both delight and alarm. Thankfully, the vast majority cause no damage because they ...

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Private South Korean rocket exploded last December due to hardware failure, investigation finds

The South Korean startup Innospace failed during its first orbital launch attempt, which sent five satellites aloft on Dec. 22 from Brazil.