02 September 2021
Long awaited SLS launch looks likely to slip to mid-2022
... orbit planned for 2023, nor the 2024 landing of Artemis 3. US Senator Bill Nelson, who took over as NASA administrator this year under President Joe Biden, has continued to predict that Artemis 1 would take off in 2021...
02 February 2022
Global warming trend shows no sign of abating
... industrial revolution. “Science leaves no room for doubt: climate change is the existential threat of our time,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “Eight of the top 10 warmest years on our planet occurred in the last decade, an indisputable fact...
15 June 2022
NASA counts on ESA cooperation for lunar exploration
...step towards this vision was agreed in an innovative agreement signed by the ESA Director General and the NASA Administrator at the ESA Council. UK company SSTL is already building Lunar Pathfinder, the first commercial lunar telecommunications relay...
29 August 2022
Lift-off draws close for NASA’s spectacular lunar return mission
...SpaceX. US taxpayers are expected to stump up $93 billion to finance the Artemis programme but prior to today’s planned launch NASA administrators insisted that Americans would find the cost to be justified. “This is now the Artemis generation,” said...
24 August 2024
NASA formally abandons Starliner for crew return to Earth
... Starliner system testing and data analysis. “Spaceflight is risky, even at its safest and most routine,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “A test flight, by nature, is neither safe nor routine. The decision to keep Butch and Suni...
14 February 2019
NASA says a final goodbye to Opportunity
...brave astronauts walk on the surface of Mars," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. "And when that day arrives, some... Martian landscapes," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "Whatever loss we...
