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 A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage, carrying Russian the Meteor-M spacecraft and 18 Russian and foreign additional small satellites, blasts off from a launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, February 29, 2024.

Russia says it is considering putting a nuclear power plant on the moon with China

By REUTERS
FILE PHOTO: Founder, Chairman, CEO and President of Amazon Jeff Bezos speaks during an event about Blue Origin's space exploration plans in Washington

Jeff Bezos thinks humans should colonize space, live in cylindrical space stations

 A first military satellite named Noor is launched into orbit by Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, in Semnan, Iran April 22, 2020

Iran aims to test astronaut-ready space capsules by March

Space is full of 200 tons of garbage. Now what?

 A view of the moon as viewed by the Chandrayaan-3 lander during Lunar Orbit Insertion on August 5, 2023 in this screengrab from a video released August 6, 2023.

Chandrayaan-3 lands on moon in historic moment for India

By REUTERS
 The Lunar south Pole as photographed June 23, 1996

Why are space agencies racing to the Moon's south pole?

By REUTERS
 A picture taken from the camera of the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 shows the Zeeman crater located on the far side of the moon, August 17, 2023

What did China's rover discover hidden under the moon's surface? - study

The words 'India Moon Mission', Moon and an Indian flag are seen in this illustration, August 21, 2023.

Moon landing anticipation builds for India after Russia's crash

By REUTERS
 NASA's Perseverance rover filmed the Ingenuity helicopter during its 54th flight.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter performs test flight on Mars in rare footage

 A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage and the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 blasts off from a launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, August 11, 2023.

Russia's Luna-25 smashes into moon in failure

 Specialists take part in preparations ahead of the launch of the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 mission to search for ice near the south pole of the moon, at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur region, Russia, in this handout photo published August 1, 2023.

Russia's lunar lander hit by unspecified 'emergency situation'

RICHARD BRANSON prepares to spray champagne after flying with a crew in Virgin Galactic’s passenger rocket plane ‘VSS Unity’ on July 11.

The Israeli flag was taken onto the first commercial space flight

By MAARIV
 US Cygnus and Russian Soyuz spaceships

Russia launches lunar lander in race to find water on moon

By REUTERS
Lockheed Martin's logo is seen during Japan Aerospace 2016 air show in Tokyo, Japan, October 12, 2016.

Lockheed gets US defense contract to develop nuclear-powered spacecraft

By REUTERS
An H-2A rocket carrying the Hope Probe, developed by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the Mars explore, rises into the air after blasting off from the launching pad at Tanegashima Space Center on the southwestern island of Tanegashima, Japan, in this

UAE launches Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt

A Long March-5B Y3 rocket, carrying the Wentian lab module for China's space station under construction, takes off from Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan province, China, July 24, 2022.

Mystery Chinese spacecraft returns to Earth after 276 days

By REUTERS
SpaceX's Starship is seen ahead of its lift off from the company's Boca Chica launchpad on an orbital test mission near Brownsville, Texas, U.S. April 17, 2023.

Elon Musk's SpaceX postpones debut flight of Starship rocket system

By REUTERS
NASA's planned Dragonfly rotorcraft lander approaches a site to explore on Saturn's moon

NASA mission to Saturn aims to understand the chemistry of life