It's official: NASA has awarded a $2.9 billion dollar contract to SpaceX to build the starship that will take us back to the moon for the first time since 1972
Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into space, has died. Ride, 61, passed away peacefully at her home in La Jolla, CA. on Monday, July 23 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.