The self-driving capability would also allow the vehicle to meet the next astronaut mission ... its rovers to the moon on a SpaceX Starship rocket as early as 2026. That mission is independent ...

It will be the 20th launch for this Falcon 9's first stage, according to a SpaceX mission description. That will tie a mark ...

which debuted on the Apollo 15 mission in 1971. The new machine will be similar to that famous "moon buggy" in some ways. It will be unpressurized, for example, meaning astronauts who ride it will ...

It began with the launch of its massive SLS moon rocket and Orion spacecraft on Nov. 16, a mission without any people ... [Inside the rockets that NASA and SpaceX plan to send to the moon] The ...

The window to apply to be a NASA astronaut — a window that opens only ... behaves in the far-flung emptiness between us and the moon. But the need for STEM in space might be waning — just ...

allowing them to cover much greater distances under manual astronaut control or by remote control from Earth. "As astronauts explore the south pole region of the moon during our Artemis missions ...

Is it a bird, is it a plane, is it Superman? NASA photographed a sliver of a mysterious, surfboard-shaped object near the surface of the moon last month, images released by the space agenc y on ...

NASA in January said it has scheduled for September 2026 its first astronaut lunar landing since the end of the Apollo program in the 1970s, with a mission flying four astronauts around the moon ...

After the teleconference concluded, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said on X that his company's Starship rocket, which NASA Artemis astronauts will use to reach the ... Sample Return mission, or MSR ...

Ever dreamed of becoming an astronaut? NASA is accepting applications ... The first NASA Astronauts of the Mercury 7 mission in 1959. Walter M. Schirra, left, Alan B. Shepard, Virgil I.