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By Leah Crane Sending products into orbit on SpaceX rockets may be a good PR move Spacex/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire/Shutterstock IN LATE June, a SpaceX rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. As well as the usual supplies and a few satellites, it …

The first American spacecraft expected to land on the moon in nearly 50 years will be a robotic moon lander built by closely held Astrobotic Technology Inc and launched in two years by United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket, the companies told Reuters on Mond…

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The first American spacecraft expected to land on the moon in nearly 50 years will be an unmanned robotic lander built by closely held Astrobotic Technology Inc and launched in two years by United Launch Alliances Vulcan rocket, the companies told Reuters on …

SEATTLE (Reuters) - The first American spacecraft expected to land on the moon in nearly 50 years will be a robotic moon lander built by closely held Astrobotic Technology Inc and launched in two years by United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket, the companies …

On Sunday, Elon Musk's famed Tesla Roadster -- launched into space by SpaceX and driven by a mannequin dressed in a spacesuit - completed its first trip around the sun. On Sunday, 557 days after Elon Musk's SpaceX launched a Tesla Roadster into space, the ca…

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on Friday said Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama will serve as headquarters for the US space agency's program to build a spacecraft to put astronauts back on the moon by 2024. Bridenstine made the announcement at the …

NASA is pressing to return astronauts to the moon in just five years, then launch the first crew to Mars in the 2030s. The latter journey may cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars. But an agency executive says the US has no plans to share the hefty c…

Elon Musk, billionaire SpaceX founder and interplanetary nuclear aspirant.  Frederic J. Brown/Getty Images No, Elon Musk can't nuke Mars. At least, not that we know of. Yet. But that didn't stop the billionaire SpaceX founder and CEO from tweeting "Nuke Mar…

NASA is celebrating alongside Northrop Grumman at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as the latter becomes the first commercial partner to make use of the Vehicle Assembly Building on-site at the base. The VAB, as its more commonly known, is a cavernous buildin…