SpaceX is no longer talking about the Moon as a brief stopover. The company is sketching out how a fleet of giant rockets, industrial-scale refueling in orbit, and modular habitats could turn the ...

The advent of SpaceX’s Starship presents new possibilities for space exploration, particularly in establishing humanity’s first moon base. As the world looks to the stars for future colonization, the ...

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Charlie Duke arrived on the Moon, in 1972, after what felt like an eternity. First, the launch from Earth had been delayed by a month because of last-minute technical problems. Then, four days into ...

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