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SpaceX Rocket Hits Moon As Lunar Junk Tops 209 Tons

A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage hit the moon early on Wednesday, creating a fresh impact crater and adding to the growing amount of human-made debris scattered across the lunar surface. The 45-foot (13.8-meter) upper stage struck the moon at around 5,400 mph...

50 Years Ago: Viking 1 Lands On Mars

It has been half a century since NASA landed on Mars with the Viking 1 lander. Viking 1, one of a pair of Viking spacecraft, landed on Mars on July 20, 1976. Launched on August 20, 1975, Viking 1 arrived in orbit around Mars on June 19, 1976. The Viking program is,...

SpaceX Launches Starship, The World’s Largest Rocket

Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, is scheduled to lift off from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas on the 57th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s Apollo 11 moon mission. This will be Starship’s 13th flight overall and its...