Learn About Earth's Nearest Neighbor - The Moon
NASA is seeking proposals for sustainable lunar lander development and demonstration as the agency works toward a regular cadence of Moon landings.
Through Artemis missions, NASA is preparing to return humans to the Moon, including the first woman and first person of color, for long-term scientific discovery and exploration.
Under the solicitation, Human Landing System Sustaining Lunar … Read the rest of this article
NASA have said that the technical problems that afflicted the first and second launch attempts of the Artemis I mission have now been fixed.
The third launch attempt date for what has been called “NASA’s Mega Moon Rocket” has been set for September 27th.
The Artemis I rocket is composed of two components – the 30 storey high Space Launch … Read the rest of this article
NASA has selected Axiom Space to deliver a moonwalking system for the Artemis III mission, which will land Americans on the surface of the Moon for the first time in over 50 years.
This award – the first one under a competitive spacesuits contract – is for a task order to develop a next generation Artemis spacesuit and supporting … Read the rest of this article
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 8, to discuss next steps for the Artemis I mission to launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Audio of the call will livestream on NASA’s website.
Artemis I is an uncrewed flight test. It is … Read the rest of this article
NASA officials have said that it may not be possible to try launching … Read the rest of this article
A vision of a future Moon settlement assembled from semi-buried inflatable habitats.
Sited beside the lunar poles in regions of near-perpetual solar illumination, mirrors positioned above each habitat would reflect sunlight into greenhouses within the doughnut-shaped habitats.
Inflatable structures specialist Pneumocell in Austria performed a system study of an inflatable lunar habitat, based on prefabricated ultralight structures.
Once inflated, … Read the rest of this article
UPDATE Sept. 3rd: Today’s second launch attempt has been scrubbed, again due to a hydrogen fuelling leak. Stay tuned for news of when the next launch attempt will be made.
Teams are moving forward to the Moon with a second launch attempt of the Artemis I mission on Saturday, 3 September.
The two-hour launch window starts at 14:17 EDT (19:17 … Read the rest of this article
UPDATE: Today’s (August 29) launch has been scrubbed. The next launch window is on September 2nd. A hydrogen leak was been detected in the fuel system but couldn’t be fixed to allow today’s launch to go ahead.
Watch the most powerful rocket ever built launch on 29 August from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA.
Teams on Earth have … Read the rest of this article
How SpaceX and NASA Will Build The First Moon Base! SpaceX will land people onto the moon this decade.. let’s take a look at the collaboration between NASA and SpaceX to build a moon base lunar colony…
Some piece of space debris is soon to slam into the Moon.
The origin of that debris has been hard to identify.
Initially, it was thought that it was debris from one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 missions in 2015.
That was eventually ruled out.
Then the finger was pointed at China and that the debris is part of one of … Read the rest of this article