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NASA awards Firefly Aerospace $177 million for 1st multi-rover mission to moon's south pole

NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace a $176.7 million contract to deliver a pair of rovers and three scientific instruments to ...

Apollo 13 moon mission leader, played by Tom Hanks in iconic movie, dead at 97: ‘He was our Hero’

Jim Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13, died Thursday at the age of 97, NASA announced on Friday. Lovell, who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering as ...

NASA wants US to be the first nation to put nuclear reactor on the moon

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy has directed the agency to fast-track plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon.

Texas company awarded $176.7M for mission to the Moon's south pole

A Central Texas space company is on a victory lap. After successfully touching down on the Moon this past spring, a feat ...
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Returns, Splashes Down Off San Diego, California

The first crew to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission ends in disappointment

The Lunar Trailblazer mission was one of several commercial spaceflights planned for travel to the moon during 2025. Its goal ...

Experts sound off after Trump and NASA fast-track a nuclear reactor on the moon: ‘The whole proposal is cock-eyed’

Trying to get a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon is going to take time – maybe much longer more than NASA wants.

Senegal joins space pact shaping the next era of Moon missions

Senegal doesn’t have astronauts or a Moon mission – but it now has a seat at the table where the future of space is being shaped. It has joined the Artemis Accords, a US-led agreement laying down the ...