While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.

(Photo by Loren Elliott/Getty Images) Although Blue Origin was - like ... reaching the ancient orb first in this new-millennium Space Race, says Professor Kip Hodges, the founding director of ...

Told through interviews, archival photos, and film footage, “The Space Race” looks at how the NASA space program was ...

Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lunar lander embodies everything exciting about this new commercial space race. Early this year ... than anticipated, sending images and data back home, and helped ...

Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos has successfully fired a rocket into orbit as he took a giant leap in his space race with Elon Musk. The world’s two richest men are using reusable rockets to launch ...

Soviets beat U.S. - first into space MOSCOW, Oct. 4 ... of the sphere in its race around the earth. Ohio man the first to spot Sputnik By LARRY OCHS, as told to the United Press COLUMBUS, Ohio ...

Headlines of the 1950s and '60s seemed to indicate that the Soviet Union was light-years ahead of the U.S. throughout much of the space race. But behind the scenes, a very different story was ...

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