The crash likely will occur on the far side of the moon on March 4. A segment of a SpaceX rocket that launched seven years ago is currently on course to crash into the moon. The booster was part ...

Saturn V rockets went 24,000 mph on the way to the moon. But machines called crawlers that ferried them to launch pads moved at less than 1 mph. Skip to content ...

He said the rocket section weighs more than 4 tons but is unlikely to make a significant dent on the moon, the outlet said. The rocket, part of Elon Musk’s space program, launched from Cape ...

A test of a new rocket motor for NASA’s future moon missions went awry this week, with the full-size booster hurling a powerful blaze and scattering debris.Northrop Grumman, lead contractor for the ...

The SLS will use mainly tried-and-true NASA hardware — some of it actually left over from the Apollo era of the 1960s and 70s — to boost the Orion spacecraft into orbit around the moon. Skip9 ...

Despite the White House's desire to cancel the Space Launch System, the Artemis program's primary launch vehicle, NASA continues to test the rocket.

A Falcon 9 second stage has been tumbling uncontrollably in space since 2015, but experts say its seven-year journey is coming to an end, as the 4-ton rocket part is expected to hit the Moon in a ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from launch pad LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center on the Intuitive Machines' Nova-C moon lander mission in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Feb. 15, 2024. (Gregg ...

Astrobotic, Inc. is sending an unmanned American lander to the moon in 2021. The Pittsburgh-based private company has chosen United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur as the rocket that will carry ...

Rocket Launches, Trips to the Moon and More Space and Astronomy Events in 2019. ... But the prize went unclaimed when none of the companies were able to meet a launch deadline of March 31, 2018.

NASA is racing itself to the Moon in a new Space Race, pitting contractors against each other to produce the most cost-effective means of delivering astronauts to space. However, some of the ...

NASA is about to go on a journey it hasn't taken in 50 years. To get there, it has built its most powerful rocket ever. I went behind the scenes to see what it takes to build a once-in-a ...