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All systems go in Houston as NASA prepares return to Moon
Aug 15, 2022 (AFP)
LaBrode is the lead flight director for Artemis 1, set to take off later this month -- the first time a capsule that can carry humans will be sent to the Moon s...
NASA seeks student ideas for extracting, forging metal on the Moon
Aug 15, 2022 (SPX)
Its strength and resistance to corrosion make metal key to building structures, pipes, cables and more, but the metal materials for infrastructure are heavy, ma...
US astronaut Jessica Watkins sets sights on Moon... and Mars
Aug 13, 2022 (AFP)
The question is utterly theoretical for most of us, but for US astronaut Jessica Watkins, it hits a bit differently. "Whichever comes first!" Watkins says with ...
Artemis I to launch first-of-a-kind deep space biology mission
Aug 12, 2022 (SPX)
Space radiation is like a demolition derby - on the nano scale. High-energy galactic cosmic rays and bursts of solar particles permeate deep space. These types ...
Helga and Zohar are ready for their flight around the Moon
Aug 11, 2022 (SPX)
On board are three mannequins, Helga and Zohar, two identical model females from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), a...
Astroport Space Technologies awarded 2nd NASA for lunar construction
Aug 11, 2022 (SPX)
Astroport and its research partner, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), will develop geotechnical engineering processes for "Lunar Surface Site Prepa...
One more clue to the Moon's origin
Aug 11, 2022 (SPX)
Meteorites from the Moon to Antarctica During her doctoral research at ETH Zurich, Patrizia Will analysed six samples of lunar meteorites from an Antarctic coll...
Additional Artemis I test objectives to provide added confidence in capabilities
Aug 05, 2022 (SPX)
As the first integrated flight of the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft, and the exploration ground systems at NASA's 21st century spaceport in Flori...
South Korea's first lunar orbiter launched by SpaceX
Aug 05, 2022 (AFP)
Danuri -- a portmanteau of the Korean words for "Moon" and "enjoy" -- was on a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida by Elon Musk's aerospace ...
Artemis 1 becomes cultural, educational time capsule for trip around moon
Aug 05, 2022 (SPX)
NASA spacecraft, both crewed and uncrewed, have carried mementos from Earth since the 1960s. NASA's Voyager probe carried with it a gold record with Earth sound...
ESA names first 'astronaut' to fly on the Artemis I lunar mission
Aug 03, 2022 (ESA)
Shaun's assignment was announced by ESA's Director for Human and Robotic Exploration Dr David Parker. David Parker said, "Shaun's mission assignment rounds off ...
Terran Orbital concludes TCM-2 for CAPSTONE
Jul 28, 2022 (SPX)
As with TCM 1-a and TCM 1-c, this burn confirms the NASA satellite will maintain the proper trajectory to continue charting a groundbreaking path to the Moon. F...
NASA's LRO finds Lunar pits harbor comfortable temperatures
Jul 27, 2022 (SPX)
The pits, and caves to which they may lead, would make thermally stable sites for lunar exploration compared to areas at the Moon's surface, which heat up to 26...
UCLA scientists discover places on the moon where it's always 'sweater weather'
Jul 27, 2022 (SPX)
The pits, and caves to which they may lead, would make safer, more thermally stable base camps for lunar exploration and long-term habitation than the rest of t...
NASA's VIPER prototype motors through Moon-like obstacle course
Jul 27, 2022 (SPX)
Engineers tested the latest VIPER mobility engineering test unit, known as Moon Gravitation Representative Unit 3 (MGRU3) in the Simulated Lunar Operations (SLO...
Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 jacket sold for $2.7 mn
Jul 26, 2022 (AFP)
The white jacket, adorned with an American flag, NASA's initials, a patch for the Apollo 11 mission and the name "E. ALDRIN," is part of a personal collection o...
Johns Hopkins APL assembles first global map of lunar hydrogen
Jul 22, 2022 (SPX)
APL's David Lawrence, Patrick Peplowski and Jack Wilson, along with Rick Elphic from NASA Ames Research Center, used orbital neutron data from the Lunar Prospec...
NASA selects Draper to for Lunar Far Side mission
Jul 22, 2022 (SPX)
Draper will receive $73 million for the contract, and is responsible for end-to-end delivery services, including payload integration, delivery from Earth to the...
New method increases lunar mapping accuracy to unprecedented levels
Jul 22, 2022 (SPX)
A project from now former PHD student at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Iris Fernandes, has changed that. Studying the limestone formation ...
Goodyear joins Lockheed Martin to commercialize lunar mobility
Jul 21, 2022 (SPX)
Since Apollo, Goodyear continued innovating alongside NASA to advance designs for a lunar vehicle tire. The team of companies intends to be the first to establi...
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