Spend a day with me at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Florida’s Space Coast, as I meet a former NASA astronaut and ...

By day, Tim DiMella works quietly among the engineers who keep Army aviation systems flying, a civilian aerospace engineer in the Aviation and Missile Center’s Systems Readiness Directorate. By night, ...

The U.S. civilian space agency is once again on the threshold of sending astronauts into deep space, this time under the Artemis program, which comprises international partners and a diverse ...

Artemis II, currently targeted for 2026, will send astronauts on a crewed mission around the Moon for the first time since 1972. They will not land, but they will travel deep into lunar orbit and ...

This is a step, if presently halting, toward future lunar missions and a long-term human presence on our companion world, one so important that even SpaceX is setting aside Mars for a greater focus on ...

Amy Shira Teitel says past Moon missions delivered a clear purpose and impact, while Artemis II lacks clarity, ...

The museum hosts “Fly Days,” where Greg and his older brother, Alan, who is the museum director of operations and maintenance, fly the warbirds to the delight of visitors. They are the only pilots ...

Humans haven’t been back to the lunar surface since the Apollo moon program ended over five decade ago. The reasons why go ...

In July 1969, the Soviet Union’s N-1 mega rocket lifted off from Baikonur and detonated seconds later, unleashing an apocalyptic blast that set the moon program back at the worst possible moment.

With the Cold War fueling the space race, NASA faced its greatest test—landing humans on the Moon. The Apollo Program ...

Three developments stand out that will make the return to the moon effort different from the first time we visited Earth’s ...

Pad 39A is well known for crewed launches, yet that chapter is over for the foreseeable future as SpaceX prepares for Starship.