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India lands a spacecraft near moon’s south pole, joining an elite club

Country joins the U.S., the Soviet Union and China as only nations to achieve this milestone. Russia’s Luna-25 mission ended with a crash days earlier.

By Ashok Sharma and Krutika Pathi

3 months ago

NASA names naval aviator to lead next moon mission

NASA announced a naval aviator will lead an upcoming mission around the moon.

By Jonathan Lehrfeld

8 months ago

Destined for the moon, NASA’s Artemis rocket blasts into space

This morning NASA launched its Artemis 1 moon rocket, blasting the U.S. off on a path to reach the lunar surface for the first time in 50 years.

By Jonathan Lehrfeld

13 months ago

More than half of NASA’s moon-bound astronauts are active-duty military

NASA's Artemis program plans to return to the moon by 2024. Among the crew will be the first woman to walk on the moon.

By Harm Venhuizen

3 years ago

Army astronaut to military medical students: You will solve the health issues of extended space flight

NASA astronaut and Army Col. Drew Morgan spoke Wednesday from the ISS to students at the Department of Defense's medical school as well as Washington Episcopal School and Washington School for Girls.

By Patricia Kime

4 years ago

Pence pledges that US will go to the moon, Mars and beyond

Seated before the grounded space shuttle Discovery, a constellation of Trump administration officials used soaring rhetoric to vow to send Americans back to the moon and then on to Mars.

6 years ago

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