12 June 2020
NASA picks Astrobotic to fly VIPER to the Moon
... next man to the lunar surface in 2024 through the Artemis program.” VIPER’s flight to the Moon is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, which leverages the capabilities of industry partners to quickly deliver scientific...
29 July 2020
NASA announces astronauts to fly on SpaceX Crew-2 mission to ISS
... will be the second operational SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively, for...
12 November 2020
ESA and NASA to partner on Mars sample return mission
... status of the multi-year international partnership, together with NASA’s response to its the report’s recommendations. The Board,... success. It is the earliest independent review of any NASA science mission. The Board was comprised of 10 experienced ...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
...provides accurate communications transmission/reception from Earth. The vehicle would nominally launch as a co-manifested payload on the NASA Space Launch System (SLS) to a lunar distant retrograde orbit, a stable lunar orbit where the service module...
June 2018
Striding through space
..., pointing at his suited white figure in one of the most famous photographs of spaceflight. As he drifted out to 80 feet, the NASA commentator announced: “McCandless and his MMU constitute a separate spacecraft of their own now.” “I’d been told about...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... at large. With thousands more worlds left to uncover, NASA has already dispatched a replacement to carry on where Kepler ...Neptune-sized planets,” added Armstrong. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends NASA’s TESS into space in April 2016. Best of the rest ...
