21 March 2018
NASA aims for the Moon with commercial help
... the development and flight of the Space Launch Systems (SLS), Orion, and the agency’s plans to build a Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway in the 2020s. “The Moon will play an important role in expanding human presence deeper into the solar...
21 October 2019
Russia could join US-led Lunar Gateway programme
Russia wants to collaborate on NASA's plan for a Moon-orbiting space station known as the Lunar Gateway but needs to firm up its own lunar exploration plans before committing to how Russia would take part. Sergey Krikalev, executive director for ...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... for Boeing included deployable airlock studies for orbital applications (Fig. 2), lunar lander study, habitability and lunar base studies of Boeing design for lunar orbital platform-gateway, and lunar surface systems study parts I and II. Analysing...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... could dock with spacecraft located close to the planned international crewed space outpost, now called the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (LOP-G). For Mars, using ISRU to unlock and exploit frozen water is vital. Water ice locked up at the...