If Putin were to come to terms with Ukraine, ending his war of conquest, Trump could offer Russia a role in the Artemis program in exchange. The incoming U.S. president could point out that Russia has prospered as a result of the International Space Station partnership. Without that partnership, Russia would not be any kind of space power,

Built by Firefly Aerospace and Ispace, the pair of spacecraft will land separately in the moon's northern latitudes, conduct science experiments and test new technology

SpaceX launched a pair of lunar landers on Wednesday for two separate companies looking to jumpstart business on the Moon. The two landers rocketed away in the middle of the night from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in the US.

the Soviet Union, China, India and Japan. Separately, SpaceX is also conducting its seventh orbital flight test of its Starship rocket, which is due to take off from Texas at 16:00 local time (22: ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost — named after a species of U.S. Southeastern fireflies — should reach the moon first. The 6-foot-6-inches-tall (2-meter-tall) lander will attempt a touchdown in early March at Mare Crisium, a volcanic plain in the northern latitudes.

SpaceX has sent Japanese and U.S. lunar landers on separate missions in a major step in the race to commercialize the Moon.

The launch comes as NASA aims to put a human on the moon again before the end of the decade - something last achieved in 1972.

SpaceX launches lunar landers for U.S. and Japanese companies, aiming to advance lunar exploration and research.

SpaceX launches two lunar landers for US and Japanese firms, aiming to explore the Moon's resources and conduct various experiments.

Two landers owned by US and Japanese companies to carry out separate tests on the Moon's surface.

Space exploration continues to be a key area of research for scientists. In recent decades, it has attracted interest from security experts globally, given the wide use of satellites for peaceful military purposes, such as navigation, intelligence gathering, and military communications.

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.