NASA begun fuelling its moon rocket Wednesday for humanity's first lunar trip in more than half a century, aiming for an evening liftoff with four astronauts. Tensions were high as hydrogen fuel started flowing into the rocket hours ahead of the planned launch. Dangerous hydrogen leaks erupted during a countdown test earlier this year, forcing a lengthy
On Wednesday, three men and one woman are set to embark on the first crewed journey to the Moon since 1972, a landmark odyssey that aims to launch the US into a new era of space exploration. The NASA mission dubbed Artemis 2 has been years in the making after facing repeated setbacks, but is finally scheduled to take off from Florida as early as April
In the heady days of the 1960s, at the peak of the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union were locked in a Space Race. The Soviet Union took the lead: they launched the first satellite, the Sputnik , in 1957 and the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, in 1961, quickly followed by the first woman in space. The US lagged behind. Shortly after the CIA’s