Apollo 10 launched on a mission to the moon. Apollo 10 was considered a "dress rehearsal" for a lunar landing. It did everything the same as a real lunar landing mission, except for the part where the ...

Apollo 10 “dress rehearsal” mission launched into orbit, to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later.

The United States successfully made six Apollo crewed missions in the 1960s and 1970s, bringing 12 Americans to the ... spaceport to transport a Lanyue lunar lander and a Mengzhou manned ...

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 ...

A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface ...

A privately owned lunar ... lander. It still managed to operate briefly, ending America’s moon-landing drought of more than 50 years. Until then, the U.S. had not landed on the moon since ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander ... Guidance when the lander was fully autonomous, which is a similar to the guidance that the Apollo moon missions used ...

With the roar of its powerful nine Merlin engines, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket left right on time for its instantaneous launch at 1:05 a.m. ET from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center ...

Discover interesting facts about how the moon formed, what it's made out of, and the many missions humans have launched to ...

Meanwhile, Paragon’s effort to supply life-support systems for a new lunar lander system is on indefinite hold. Paragon is part of a team led by Dynetics Inc. competing against SpaceX and Blue ...

On May 23, 2017, NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer took an urgent and unplanned spacewalk to replace a broken data relay box outside of the International Space Station. When you ...

Today, May 21, 2025, the moon is 24 days old and is in the waning crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 40% illuminated. Moon phase Date First Quarter May 4 Full Moon May 12 Third/Last Quarter ...