July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... could establish the US as the world’s leading space power. NASA ramped up its activities to deliver on the President’s commitment, and...the upper stages of a space rocket. Now leading NASA’s rocket developments, Wernher von Braun pushed forward with ...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
...System (SLS), designed for a new era of human exploration beyond Earth orbit. Equipped to launch crews of up to four in NASA’s Orion spacecraft, its first significant test is Artemis, the much-publicised mission to land American astronauts “including...
04 August 2018
First NASA Commercial Crew revealed
...develop their own human spaceflight systems. Then in 2014 NASA announced that Boeing and SpaceX would share $6.8 billion...pioneering ISS crew. Additional team members will be assigned by NASA’s international partners at a later date. The agency has ...
28 December 2018
Dream Chaser spacecraft passes key NASA milestone
... milestone marks completion of Integration Review 4 (IR4) demonstrating NASA’s confidence in the safety and maturity of Dream Chaser’s ... in Louisville, CO. Subject matter experts from NASA and SNC thoroughly reviewed the Dream Chaser spacecraft...
22 February 2019
NASA selects experiments for possible lunar flights in 2019
... yield resources, such as water and oxygen,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. “Its proximity to Earth makes... Clarke, SMD’s deputy associate administrator for Exploration at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “The selected payloads, along with...
10 June 2019
NASA opens ISS to space tourists
...the station to be defunded by the government by 2025. NASA will continue research and testing in low-Earth orbit to... partner with industry to achieve a strong ecosystem in which NASA is one of many customers purchasing services and capabilities at ...
