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Getting Starship off the ground is costing the commercial spaceflight company billions of dollars at a time when money is tight. Some analysts think more funding will be needed.

Getting Starship off the ground is costing the commercial spaceflight company billions of dollars at a time when money is tight. Some analysts think more funding will be needed.

It's been nearly 50 years since the latest Apollo landing, and the landscape for space exploration is wildly different. Why is NASA's latest mission focused on revisiting the moon?

It's been nearly 50 years since the latest Apollo landing, and the landscape for space exploration is wildly different. Why is NASA's latest mission focused on revisiting the moon?

The US space agency has ambitious moon plans and, after a short delay, they kick off on Saturday. But it will have to compete with the likes of Elon Musk for its lunar future.

A former NASA deputy administrator speaks candidly about the troubled history and radical potential of the space agency’s lunar return

Lori Garver's new memoir details her struggles to get NASA colleagues to embrace SpaceX and Blue Origin.

An unfiltered memoir by the agency’s former No. 2 rips NASA’s administrator and a “male-dominated” culture for wasting billions on a government-owned moon rocket.

Mining on the moon? Owning an asteroid? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice answer Qs about the new space age and its privatization with Lori Garver.

Former NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver reminds a D.C. audience of how much Congress once hated the idea of commercial crew transportation from the likes of SpaceX and Blue Origin.