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As private firms aim for the Moon and beyond, a book calls for an urgent relook at the legal compact that governs space exploration. As private firms aim for the Moon and beyond, a book calls for an urgent relook at the legal compact that governs space exploration.

Recently, the Senate Subcommittee on Space and Science held a hearing about human commercial space flights. During the hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Bill Gerstenmaier, formerly at NASA and now vice president of build and flight reliability for SpaceX, had an exchange concerning the regulatory delays that are holding up the second test launch of the Starship. Starship is the massive rocket ship SpaceX is developing that promises to revolutionize spaceflight, take people back to the lunar surf...

With help from Elon Musk's SpaceX, NASA successfully launched a probe headed for an asteroid brimming with gold, nickel, and iron.

With the success of the Chandrayaan-3 this August, India became the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon. Improved fabrication methods like 3D printing, plus larger-scale...

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The head of Russia's space agency said "the race for the development of the natural resources of the moon has begun."

NASA is gearing up to launch a spacecraft to study the asteroid 16 Psyche, estimated to be worth $10 quintillion in precious metals

The United States remains the only nation to have landed humans on the Moon and returned them safely to Earth.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee, today participated in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Artemis II Crew Unveiling at Ellington Field JRB.Sen. Cruz spoke at the crew unveiling, where NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon. Sen. Cruz