The space agency seeks to ensure the highly complex mission isn’t the latest to suffer delays, cancellations, or budgetary overruns.
The heavy-lift rocket is scheduled for liftoff on May 4, but an unexpected hydrogen fireball at a test facility will likely force a delay.
Musk, too, is the beneficiary of public-private partnerships.
Lucy is still millions of miles away from its rocky targets but has managed to peek at them from a distance.
Scheduled for launch on Saturday at 2:47 a.m. ET, the hefty haul includes Kenya's first operational satellite and a satellite to demo asteroid mining skills.
SpaceX is on the verge of launching its gigantic rocket for the first time. Failure is a possibility, but the company issued a promise: "Excitement guaranteed."
Called Stars on Mars , the upcoming Fox reality show will require celebrities to endure the harsh conditions found in a simulated Martian colony.
The "pancosmorio theory" says that for humans to survive in space, missions must duplicate ecological conditions found back home, including Earth's gravity.
ESA's advanced JUICE spacecraft has officially begun its eight-year journey to Jupiter, where it will explore the gas giant's icy moons.
The company says it learned much from Terran-1's debut flight and is choosing to go bigger for its successor.
Many media outlets and government officials are quick to describe a new "space race" between the U.S. and China, but is it real?
The innovative rocket company released a video that reveals its vision for future trips to the Red Planet.
Koch was part of NASA's first all-woman spacewalk and set the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman. Now, she's going to the Moon.
The SLS upper stage will send a crewed Orion spacecraft on a 10-day journey to the Moon and back as early as late next year.
The Chinese space agency has selected asteroid 2019 VL5 as the target of a mission launching in 2025.
Dr. Makenzie Lystrup chose the iconic book, which was inspired by a 1990 photograph of Earth from space.
Elon Musk says the super heavy-lift rocket could finally get off the ground next week, pending a launch license from the FAA.
The agency's Innovative Advanced Concepts program seeks out futuristic ideas that could become real technology.
The #SaveVERITAS effort is pushing a 2029 launch date for the Venus orbiter, which is delayed indefinitely by problems at NASA.
The company hopes to send a group of astronauts to the ISS twice a year until it can place its own module in low Earth orbit.
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