01 May 2020
Blue Origin tops NASA funding awards for human lunar lander
... set foot on the lunar surface," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. A programme that overall is projected to cost some ...will have an opportunity to perform demonstration missions first. Bridenstine said NASA will go with the company that has the...
18 March 2019
A habitat prototype for NASA’s Moon-orbiting Gateway
... modules planned to make up NASA’s Lunar Gateway platform, which the agency’s White House-appointed administrator Jim Bridenstine described March 11 as a Moon-orbiting staging area for lunar landers and occasionally astronauts, with solar-electric...
19 April 2019
Mission to Mars by 2033 not viable says independent report
... with President Trump’s last year in office, if he’s elected for a second term. Following the statement, NASA head Jim Bridenstine then declared that NASA wants to “achieve a Mars landing in 2033.” This can be accomplished he said, while speaking...
14 October 2020
NASA signs up nations for its Artemis Accords, while Russia shuns Gateway plans
...establish this singular global coalition,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. “With today’s signing, we are uniting ..., not bilaterally via government-to-government agreements. But, Bridenstine told reporters, that would have taken too long....
08 October 2018
A round-up of news from this years IAC
... for Higher Education and Advanced Skills, and Chairman of the UAE Space Agency, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, outlines the intended cooperation across a range of areas related to space exploration, including: UAE astronaut training and...
15 May 2019
New funding under fire for Moon 2024 Artemis mission
... Request, to accelerate the space agency’s efforts in returning to the Moon. These extra funds, said NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine in a video message to agency employees earlier this week, are a down payment ‘that gets us out of the gate...
