10 January 2024
NASA announces delays to astronaut lunar missions
... from home, and prepare for future human exploration of the Red Planet. NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, exploration ground systems, and Orion spacecraft, along with the human landing system, next-generation spacesuits, Gateway lunar space...
22 October 2019
Bezos announces Blue Moon partnership for lunar landing
...Congress (IAC) in Washington DC today (Tuesday) that his space company is to head up a national team to offer a human landing system for NASA's Artemis programme to return Americans to the lunar surface by 2024. Speaking to several thousand delegates...
02 September 2021
Long awaited SLS launch looks likely to slip to mid-2022
... hasn’t publicly denied the feasibility of a 2024 Moon landing, an intentionally ambitious goal set by the administration of ... the same time the agency has paused work on the Human Landing System for Artemis 3 to address a lawsuit by Blue Origin....
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... rapid acquisition of lunar payload delivery services; the recent contract to SpaceX for the development of the Human Landing System (HLS); and ESA’s Commercial Partnerships and Commercial Lunar Mission Support Services (CLMSS) for the provision...
18 January 2021
NASA's SLS engine test ends early
...hot fire test was a big milestone for the Space Launch System team” said John Honeycutt, the SLS program manager at ... that will carry astronauts to space, along with the human landing system and the Gateway in orbit around the Moon, are NASA’s backbone...
03 December 2021
NASA selects three companies to develop commercial space stations
...to deliver cargo to the ISS, as well as build NASA’s Human Landing System as part of its Artemis Programme, in order to reduce costs. ...programs,” said Wendy Williams, vice president, propulsion systems, Northrop Grumman. “This new booster design will ...
