A Japanese startup appears to have failed in its effort to become the first to achieve a privately funded moon landing. Tokyo-based ispace was attempting to land the Hakuto-R Series 1 lander on the surface of the moon at 9:40 ...
An attempt at the first privately funded lunar landing is about to take place, and you can watch a livestream of the effort on Tuesday. Japan’s iSpace launched its Hakuto-R Series 1 lander to the moon aboard a SpaceX Falcon ...
Bill Anders/NASA NASA has shared an interview with retired astronaut Bill Anders, who took the iconic Earthrise shot during the Apollo 8 lunar mission in December 1968. The video (below) landed on NASA’s YouTube channel just before Saturday’s Earth Day, ...
SpaceX’s Starship vehicle suffered what the spaceflight company called a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” on Thursday. In other words, it blew up. The good news is that the uncrewed rocket cleared the pad and flew for around four minutes before meeting ...
NASA, along with a suite of international and private partners, has big plans to build a small space station. Called Lunar Gateway, the proposed outpost will support missions at and around the Moon and provide a unique platform for conducting ...
