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Several giant leaps for mankind are in the works as the global race to put people on the Moon for the first time since the Apollo missions heats up. This week Japan hopes to become the fifth ...

"Once the last golf ball was hit on the last Apollo mission on the moon everybody said: 'okay, what do we do now?'" says Sean O’Keefe, former NASA Administrator under former president George W Bush.

Such momentum is worrying American space officials and lawmakers, who have their own ambitions to build moon bases. Unlike the original space race between the Americans and the Soviets ...

Technology, science and politics are all essential factors in the Moon race. Here is the latest on various missions: - Russia's Luna - The launch of Luna-25 on August 11 was the first such Russian ...

It might even open a new chapter of space exploration, with astronauts heading to Mars and beyond. It all becomes possible with water on the moon. And it's the reason the Space Race is being re-run.

Nations and private companies are racing to establish a foothold on Earth's celestial neighbor to harness the moon's natural resources ... One such company in this space race is the Texas-based ...

Call it a surefire sign that a modern moon race is underway ... including its own version of the famous “Blue Marble” photo of Earth. “Firefly’s first Moon and Blue Marble images captured ...

BEIJING--China plans to land astronauts on the moon before 2030, in what would be another advance in what's increasingly seen as a new space race pitting the Asian autocracy against the United ...

A private firm sent off yet another lunar lander, but with its sights this time on the south pole of the moon with a drone that will scout out one of its permanently dark craters. The Athena ...

Feb 26 (Reuters) - Two moon landings in less than a week have once again turned the spotlight on space startups as NASA leans on private companies to send scientific payloads to the lunar surface ...

The Resilience probe is healthy and hitting milestones. It will land on the moon on June 5, ispace says. The private Resilience moon lander now has a target touchdown date. The Tokyo-based company ...