Marius Borg Hoiby (L) and Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit (R) attend a June 2022 government event in Oslo, Norway.

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — Boeing announced Tuesday that it plans to lay off about 400 of its employees who are working on NASA’s Artemis moon rocket. “To align with revisions to ...

The budget proposes the end of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule after the Artemis III moon-landing mission.

The United States continues to urge countries to sign onto the Artemis Accords, which seek to prevent the militarization of space exploration. Fifty-two countries are now signatories.

Despite the arrival of privately funded lunar mining companies, advancements in space resource legislation (such as the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015) and lunar prospecting ...