NASA is moving forward with a major modernization effort at Johnson Space Center, awarding contracts to seven companies that will help upgrade aging facilities and infrastructure at the Houston campus that has served as the center of America’s human spaceflight program for more than six decades.

A handful of other countries have their own lunar programs, as does the European Union. Through 2030, governments and private entities have planned more than 400 missions in the next two decades to fly past or circle the moon or to land crewed or uncrewed ...

If the pending Artemis II mission is successful, it will not just send Americans around the moon and back for the first time in more than half a century—it will send them further than any human being has traveled into space. If the rest of the Artemis ...

The computer that guided astronauts to the moon and back operated with roughly 2,048 words of erasable memory and 36,864 words of fixed memory, running at a clock speed near 2 MHz. A smartphone released in the past few years can execute billions of operations per second while simultaneously streaming video,

Italian luxury house Prada (PRDSY) (PRDSF) unveiled a high-tech inner-layer garment that will be worn by NASA astronauts on future moon missions. The body-hugging "Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment" is developed with Houston-based Axiom Space and features ventilation tubes knitted into the fabric to help regulate astronauts' temperature.

An immense purple-tinted cloud of smoke billows upwards from Blue Origin's launch pad, and white sparks rain down across the area, after the explosion of the company's New Glenn rocket on May 29, 2026. (NASASpaceflight/Reuters)