A symbol of Florida's Space Coast, the VAB at Kennedy Space Center has powered moon missions past and present. Here is its ...

From the Apollo landing site to the North America Nebula, these celestial sights offer a uniquely American way to celebrate ...

From the day the Soviets put an astronaut into space in April 1961, the race was on with America to get a man on the moon.

NASA has awarded four new lander contracts to test technology before sending astronauts back to the moon. The contracts were ...

The USA TODAY Network has learned two US lawmakers plan to introduce legislation nominating the Artemis II astronauts for a ...

Two tiny transforming robots landed on the moon! They accompanied Japan's first successful lunar lander called SLIM - Smart Lander for Investigating Moon and are the size of a baseball. They rolled ...

Only months separate us from the moment when American space agency NASA, aided by a long list of commercial partners, will begin realizing its dream of building a permanent base on the Moon, the new ...

Astrobotic's Griffin-1 lunar lander undergoing final preparations in a clean room in the company's Pittsburgh headquarters. Credit: Astrobotic PITTSBURGH — Astrobotic showed off the lunar lander it ...

The next robotic lander to launch to the moon was revealed today (June 15) by Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic. "This is the first infrastructure-class lander going to the surface of the moon," ...

NEW ON FOUR. ASTROBOTIC, A SPACEX COMPANY BASED RIGHT HERE IN PITTSBURGH, UNVEILS ITS GRIFFIN MISSION ONE LUNAR LANDER. NASA HAS NAMED THE SPACECRAFT MOON BASE TWO. THE MISSION IS EXPECTED TO DELIVER ...

As Apollo 11 approached the Moon in July 1969, the Soviet Union made one last secret attempt to salvage the lunar race with Luna 15, an unmanned mission meant to land, collect soil, and return it to ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The company's Griffin Mission ...