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Stroll down the stairwell from the second-story Moon Room at Pineapples in Eau Gallie, and you’ll encounter an MTV-themed mural of an astronaut holding a flag on the lunar surface amid a cosmic backdrop.

A busy couple of days from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station aims to continue with the planned launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying a missile warning satellite among its payloads for the U.S. Space Force.

NASA wants to experiment with a new orbit around the moon that it hopes to use in the coming years to once again land astronauts on the lunar surface.

Josef Aschbacher recalls gazing at the night sky above his parents’ Alpine farm when he was 7, trying to comprehend what he had just seen on the family’s black-and-white TV set: the landing of NASA’s Apollo 11 on the Moon.

NASA completed nearly all of its goals with the latest wet dress rehearsal of its Artemis I moon rocket this week at Kennedy Space Center, but without a 100% completion, managers said they need to juggle these results with previous tests done on the rocket to see if they can move forward with a launch attempt.

NASA is hoping the fourth time’s the charm for the final big test before it can finally launch its massive new rocket to the moon.

Sierra Space is gearing up for the future use of its Dream Chaser spacecraft to support commercial astronaut activity with a training center based at Kennedy Space Center, the company announced today.

NASA has named the two commercial companies to which it’s outsourcing its future space duds for use on both low-Earth orbit and moon missions.

Blue Origin sent up its fifth-ever New Shepard rocket with humans on board

It’s been 11 years since Space Shuttle Endeavour finished its last mission landing at Kennedy Space Center on June 1, 2011. It has since made the cross-country trip to its new home at the California Science Center in Los Angeles where it has been on display resting horizontally since 2012.