For those in the spaceflight industry, this delay might seem unsurprising, given that the Artemis III moon lander doesn't yet exist. NASA hired SpaceX to land astronauts on the moon, a $2.89 ...

The last time a person visited the moon was in December 1972, during NASA's Apollo 17 mission. Astronauts say the reasons are budgetary and political, not scientific or technical. A US lander ...

For years, claims have spread across social media that a photo supposedly showing three astronauts not wearing helmets on the moon meant the moon landings were staged. A TikTok post from May 2024 ...

Experts agree China is a valid threat to NASA's return to the moon plans. Here's why there is a rush to get SLS off the ...

But those stays didn't establish ... NASA plans to land astronauts back on the moon in 2026, or later. And therein lies another major problem: partisan political whiplash. "Why would you believe ...

Just a month earlier, another spacecraft, the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, sent by the Japanese space agency, had also tipped during landing, ending up on its head. Why is there a ...

But the agency has already placed numerous astronauts on the moon during the Apollo program, so why won't Artemis 2 orbit the moon or land on the lunar surface? The answer is that NASA is testing ...

They'll rely on the lunar lander's computers to calculate how the spacecraft must fire thrusters to stay on course for a specific landing spot on the moon. Importantly, astronauts will have the ...

Fifty-five years after the first human lunar landing ... But the astronauts didn’t stop at honoring Americans who had died in the space program. Frank Borman, who orbited the moon as commander ...

It didn't look very sturdy ... the power of science and technology to achieve the goal of landing astronauts on the moon and bringing them home safely?" People who deny that the Apollo moon ...