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Visiting the Apollo 11 moon landing site (it's terrifying)

It has been 56 years since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left the Moon. But is the landing site really frozen in time, or ...

Blue Origin moon lander rolls out of Merritt Island facility

As NASA looks establish a presence on the moon, Blue Origin's Mark 1 lander moves ahead with pre-launch testing.
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America’s secret 1958 plan for an underground moon base, the Air Force’s lunar project that Apollo replaced

In 1958, the US Air Force drafted a top secret blueprint for an underground lunar base, aiming to seize the Moon as strategic high ground before the Soviet Union could. The plan promised a crewed ...

Managers on alert for “launch fever” as pressure builds for NASA’s Moon mission

The crawler carrying the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft was built 60 years ago to haul NASA’s Saturn V rockets, then kept ...
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NASA’s Artemis II reaches the launch pad and the countdown to the Moon begins

NASA’s Artemis II rocket has reached its launch pad after a painstaking overnight crawl across Kennedy Space Center. Engineers are now preparing for crucial fueling and countdown tests ahead of the ...