China is moving ahead with its goal of a manned lunar landing before the end of the decade while planning new missions to its Tiangong space station this year. Newsweek reached out to the Chinese ...

Though America is locked in a space race with China to reach the lunar ... NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The goal: Land about March 6 roughly 100 miles from the moon's south pole, then collect ...

Firefly Aerospace landed a craft safely last week, a first for a private company. But Intuitive Machines’ mission ended when its lander wound up on its side in a crater.

Once realized, China's manned lunar program will make the country the second nation to land astronauts on the moon, significantly boosting its global space standing. The United States successfully ...

Still the only country to send humans to the moon, the U.S. hopes to return crews to the surface by the end of 2026 or so, a year after a lunar fly-around by astronauts. China, in 2013, becomes the ...

A little more than a year had passed since the company's first attempt to land on the ... Soviet Union, China, and India have successfully made a soft landing on the Moon. But it still must ...

The world is watching, and our competitors, like communist China, are racing to beat us ... II mission that will fly around but not land on the moon slated for no later April 2026.

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

"This is not the situation that is conducive to expanding our leadership in human spaceflight": U.S. Rep. George Whitesides, ...