When NASA administrator Jared Isaacman unveiled the crew of the Artemis III mission at Johnson Space Center in Houston earlier this month, he was ebullient. We wish you godspeed on the journey ahead, ...
Two versions of history began when, one fall night in 1957, a two-stage rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and deposited a Soviet satellite called Sputnik into orbit around Earth. The ...
What was once the most important potato field in the world belonged to the Nurskanova family in the town of Engels, in the Saratov region of southwestern Russia. The days moved unremarkably on the ...
How commercial launch providers reshaped space activity in 2025 while government exploration programs faced schedule pressure. Which major lunar and deep-space milestones didn’t happen in 2025, and ...
In today’s newsletter: As July Fourth approaches, NBC News polled Americans on their views about flying the Stars and Stripes. The U.S. and Iran continued to trade strikes over the weekend, prompting ...
STRENGTH. GARY GRUMBACH, NBC NEWS, WASHINGTON. AMERICA’S 250TH BIRTHDAY IS FIVE DAYS AWAY, AND TODAY WE LOOK AT ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENTS IN OUR NATION’S HISTORY THE SPACE RACE DEFINED A ...
Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen had an emotional message before he and three colleagues set off for the Moon earlier this year on the Artemis II mission: “We go for all humanity”. To stop this race ...
The SpaceX IPO is much more than a financial event. It’s a communications game changer. Yes, investors cared about valuation, market timing, and whether humanity’s next great infrastructure company ...
It’s boom time in the commercial space industry. NASA’s push to return to the moon and historic levels of investment in the private space sector have fueled a gold rush to the stars. It’s a space race ...
Relativity Space has entered the building. The 3D-printed rocket startup has emerged from a restructuring period to possibly beat SpaceX to Mars. The four Aeolus instruments will orbit the Red Planet, ...
The NASCAR Cup Series made history Sunday with its first-ever points race on the San Diego Street Course, and when the checkered flag flew, it was Corey Heim standing in Victory Lane. Heim delivered ...
SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son said there’s little merit to building data centers in space, as championed by Elon Musk, predicting that the AI race will be clinched by computing resources ...