The U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s first director, Edward “Ed” Buckbee, has died. He was 89. Space pioneer Wernher Von Braun ...

The rocket that took humans to the Moon didn’t come from nowhere. It was built by a man with one of the most controversial pasts in history. Wernher von Braun helped design the Saturn V — but before ...

We’re going back to the moon?” they would ask, with the sort of mild surprise that one might experience upon being told that ...

The Rocket Center announced on Monday that Edward O. Buckbee has died. Buckbee was the founding executive director of the ...

But space travel is also a human endeavour. In the heavens as on Earth, that means it throws up stories that can be bizarre, ...

This lesson details how NASA got from Alan Shepard rocketing into low orbit in 1961 to Neil Armstrong taking "one small step" on the lunar surface in 1969 and today's ...

Gagarins riskanter Flug am Höhepunkt des Kalten Kriegs ebnete den Weg für die astronautische Raumfahrt – die mit der ...

As Artemis II blasted off on Wednesday, Dr. Kimberly Robinson couldn’t help but think about the journey to this point.

As NASA prepares for its long-awaited return of crewed launches beyond low Earth orbit with Artemis II, the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans has served as America’s premier rocket ...

"Wir haben uns entschlossen, noch in diesem Jahrzehnt zum Mond zu fliegen. Nicht, weil es leicht ist, sondern weil es schwer ist.“ (John F. Kennedy, 1962) Die Rede des US-Präsidenten an der Rice Unive ...

Die Nasa will erstmals ein Raumschiff mit Atomantrieb zum Mars schicken. Gleichzeitig werden die Mondpläne neu ausgerichtet.

The Moon is still there waiting for us. I know that moment will come. I don’t know when, maybe not in this century, but there is still much to discover about the moon, much to do.” In a ...