No Indian has been in orbit since Mr Rakesh Sharma, who flew on a Soviet rocket in 1984. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

A picture of the moon’s south pole was taken in May by Resilience, a robotic lander operated by the Japanese company Ispace ...

The lunar south pole is of particular interest to NASA because ... 9 rocket Wednesday at 7:17 p.m. ET from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The same rocket will also launch a moon ...

The moon seems to be an increasingly busy place, with missions headed in its direction being planned all the time. This is, ...

This is part of NASA’s broader effort to embrace the burgeoning private space industry by becoming ... Machines to arrive at the moon’s south pole in 2027, ahead of the Artemis missions ...

Lunar exploration is entering a new era. Long after the Apollo missions, a renewed international interest comes with ...

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced in 2021 it ... "A first Canadian rover is set to explore the south pole of the moon. It will demonstrate innovative key technologies, gather scientific ...

or it could be a treacherous deep hole capable of injuring an astronaut or critically damaging space suit systems. The Moon’s south pole is an elusive target through an Earth-bound telescope.

NASA officials also considered the combined trajectory capabilities of its Space Launch System rocket, the Orion spacecraft and Starship Human Landing System. "The Moon’s South Pole is a ...

And the search for lunar ice is part of China’s preparations to build a research base at the moon’s south pole, Chinese space experts told state broadcaster CCTV. “There are some very deep ...

Less than an hour before liftoff Monday night, he posted on X: "36th flight of 2025: SpaceX Fram2 from LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, via the South Pole and the North Pole, to Pacific Ocean near ...

Didi joined Newsweek after a stint at think tanks in Germany and Prague and following two decades of reporting at the New York Times, the Associated Press and the South China Morning Post ...