Space Race I with the Soviet Russians. (Photo by NASA/Space Frontiers/Getty Images) When SpaceX live-streamed Starship’s seventh test flight, one of its top engineers, Kate Tice, narrated the ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...