Experts agree China is a valid threat to NASA's return to the moon plans. Here's why there is a rush to get SLS off the launch pad.

In a Memorial Day weekend liftoff, SpaceX is targeting the sunny afternoon of Saturday, May 24, to launch another Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, per the Federal Aviation Administration.

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—"5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ignition!" Members of Western Michigan University's American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Pegasus advanced rocketry club held their breath as their 8-foot-tall rocket hurtled thousands of feet into the sky over Bragg Farms in Huntsville, Alabama.

A new memorandum has firmed up China and Russia's intent to lead the construction of a new lunar base to be completed by 2036, as NASA talks about scaling back its own lunar ambitions.