... out plans as to where the organisation sees itself heading in the next few years and a stake in the Lunar gateway is high on its list of priorities. Using its European Exploration Envelope Programme (known as E3P) as a springboard for ideas...
... to build and perform a spaceflight demonstration of the lunar Gateway’s power and propulsion element spacecraft. Blue Origin and ...element into its orbit and subsequently move the Gateway between lunar orbits over its lifetime to maximize NASA’s ...
... focus to commercial development of the station. The decision is probably partly due to NASA’s interest in developing a human-tended lunar gateway that would orbit the moon. Any extension of the ISS past 2024 would therefore mean less...
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...
... the agency and the companies contribute money. A habitat is one of several 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...
... due to their load carrying capability, enabling them to transport supplies to the Lunar Gateway and to a lunar surface base far more cost effectively. The Lunar Gateway and supporting logistics vehicles, such as the SpaceX Dragon XL and ESA’s Moon...