It’s the latest step in the burgeoning extra-terrestrial contest between superpowers.
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A team led by Blue Origin won a $3.4-billion Nasa contract to build a spacecraft to fly astronauts to and from the moon’s surface.
China will explore using 3D printing to construct buildings on the moon as Beijing solidifies plans for long-term lunar habitation.
SpaceX’s towering Super Heavy booster, one half of the company’s Starship rocket system, briefly roared to life for the first time on Thursday.
A Nasa-led international satellite mission was set to blast off from southern California early on Thursday on a major Earth science project.
Nasa’s Orion capsule barrelled through Earth’s atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday after making an uncrewed voyage around the moon.
Nasa’s Orion spacecraft has captured a stunning photo of the Earth and moon from a point in space further from our home planet than any such craft built for human space travel has ventured thus far.
China plans to build a base on the moon by 2028 as the country steps up its challenge to Nasa’s dominance in space exploration.
Nasa’s huge, next-generation rocket ship was on course on Wednesday for a crew-less voyage around the moon and back.
About 11.5 billion years ago, a distant star roughly 530 times larger than our sun died in a cataclysmic explosion