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Apollo 11: Messages from world leaders carried to the Moon

Way back in 1969, the Apollo 11 crew carried a silicon disc containing goodwill messages from 73 world leaders. The disc, ...

How spacefaring nations could avoid conflict on the moon

In the 1960s, Frank Sinatra's song "Fly Me to the Moon" became closely associated with the Apollo missions. The optimistic ...
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Like Apollo before them, ESA astronauts hone lunar landing skills in helicopters

Now try a jet engine in a bedstead before strapping into a Starship European Space Agency (ESA) astronauts have completed a ...

SpaceX could have Artemis competition. What to know as NASA revisits moon landing plans

NASA is looking for new ideas for moon landers to help astronauts return to the surface of the moon as progress for SpaceX's ...
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SpaceX could lose contract for Artemis 3 astronaut moon-landing mission, acting NASA chief says: 'The problem is, they're behind'

In April 2021, NASA awarded Elon Musk's company a $2.9 billion contract to provide the first crewed lunar lander for the ...

Starship was meant to land astronauts on the moon. Now, NASA wants other options

NASA is looking for more ideas for Artemis III lunar landers amid concerns for the progress of SpaceX's Starship megarocket.

Not just Mars. Elon Musk's Starship was bound for the moon before NASA's new move

Starship, which has launched 11 times in South Texas, was NASA's vehicle of choice to land astronauts on the moon. Now the agency wants other options.
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How NASA, SpaceX and America can still win the race to the moon

A full moon is seen behind the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher, are prepared for a wet dress rehearsal to practice timelines and procedures for ...