Private US spaceship hours from Moon landing attempt
Washington (AFP) - After a long journey through space, a US company is just hours away from attempting a daring ...
Sunday, May 17, 2026
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Two lunar landings in a week for NASA’s private Moon fleet
Washington (AFP) - More than fifty years passed between the last Apollo mission and the United States' return to the ...
Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket firm to cut 10% of workforce
Washington (AFP) - Jeff Bezos's rocket company Blue Origin is laying off around 10 percent of its workforce following a ...
SpaceX catches Starship booster again, but upper stage explodes
Washington (AFP) - Hours after Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin nailed its first-ever orbital mission, SpaceX seized back the spotlight on ...
Private US, Japanese lunar landers launch on single rocket
Kennedy Space Center (United States) (AFP) - One rocket, two missions: lunar landers built by US and Japanese companies launched ...
SpaceX set for seventh test of Starship megarocket
Boca Chica (United States) (AFP) - Elon Musk's SpaceX is gearing up for the seventh orbital flight test of Starship, ...
Blue Origin scrubs key test launch again, eyes Thursday
Cape Canaveral (AFP) - Blue Origin, the space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, called off the inaugural launch of ...
Trump names billionaire private astronaut as next NASA chief
Washington (AFP) - US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Jared Isaacman, the online payments billionaire and the first private ...
Boeing exploring sale of space business: report
New York (AFP) - Boeing is exploring a possible sale of its space business as its new CEO seeks to ...
In milestone, SpaceX ‘catches’ megarocket booster after test flight
Boca Chica (United States) (AFP) - SpaceX on Sunday successfully flew the first-stage booster of its Starship megarocket back to ...
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