Ten years ago today (Oct. 15), China became the third nation — after the Soviet Union/Russia and the United States — to independently launch an astronaut to Earth orbit. A decade later, it's working to get a sophisticated robotic lander/rover mission called Chang’e 3 to...
Chinese space officials are rolling out a welcome mat to other nations eager to gain access to their future space station. The Chinese government has designed a multiphase station program aimed at launching a Tiangong 2 space laboratory around 2015, an experimental space station in 2018,...
Golden Spike’s plan is to use existing rockets and emerging commercial crew spacecraft to lower the cost of a two-person expedition to the lunar surface to roughly the price of current robotic missions to the Moon. Golden Spike would only develop new systems — such...
own Hall in NYC on Feb. 27, 2013, Commander Neil deGrasse Tyson and Co-Pilot Eugene Mirman recruited a crack crew: NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, Andrew Chaikin, planetary geologist and author of A Man on the Moon, and,...
Buzz Aldrin, 83, on the secret ceremony he performed on the moon, his three marriages, and the tragedy that led to his space adventures...