ABC News’ Elizabeth Schulze reports on the cold-war era space race and the history of the NASA space program, ahead of the Artemis II launch and the future US moon-base ambition.

NASA has long captured the imagination of humanity with its ambitions. We reached the moon, built space stations, placed telescopes in orbit, and unlocked the secrets of the universe with NASA's ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - October 1, 1958. US President Dwight D. Eisenhower officially declares NASA open for business, beginning the United States Civilian Space Program.

When the Cold War heated up in 1946, the U.S. and the Soviet Union took their rivalry from Earth to the stars. Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, blasted off in 1957, and the U.S. struck hard.

When Apollo 13 looped around the Moon in April 1970, more than 40 million people around the world watched the United States recover from a potential catastrophe. An oxygen tank explosion turned a ...

A new book explores the experiences of all 61 U.S. women astronauts Valerie Neal NASA astronaut and Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Kate Rubins sequences DNA aboard the International Space Station for ...

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The United States is no longer competing against a single rival in a largely symbolic race. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This ...