The gargantuan Starship rocket that Mr. Musk’s company is currently developing ... including what the new initiative would mean for NASA’s existing moon program, when astronauts would get ...

The company is one of NASA's largest contractors and is one of several currently working on projects related to Mars. So far, only unmanned rovers and orbiters have made it to the Red Planet.

Duke took the flags with him to the Moon on Apollo 16 in 1972. “We are grateful to General Duke for this generous ...

"Can you image how awesome it will be to have American astronauts plant the flag on another ... only private company spacecrafts but also working as a main launch contractor to NASA crewed and ...

And they're not alone. Beyond NASA, space programs in countries like Russia and China also use white suits. Not the colors of the Russian flag or China's iconic yellow and red, just white.

In the early 1990s, Anne Platoff, then working with Hernandez Engineering Inc. in Houston, Texas put together a NASA contractor report titled, "Where No Flag Has Gone Before: Political and ...