14 October 2020
NASA signs up nations for its Artemis Accords, while Russia shuns Gateway plans
... will join the Artemis Accords in due time. NASA announced its intention to establish the Accords earlier this...principles that will preserve peace,” said Mike Gold, NASA acting associate administrator for international and interagency relations. ...
23 April 2021
NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 heads to the ISS in a reused rocket and capsule
... year have flown as many people in this partnership with NASA as were flown in the Mercury program,” SpaceX senior director...multiplanetary,” Reed said. Its crew of four astronauts, NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Thomas Pesquet of ...
14 February 2019
NASA says a final goodbye to Opportunity
...as a wet, potentially habitable planet, and revealing uncharted Martian landscapes," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "Whatever loss we feel now must be tempered with the knowledge that the legacy...
13 March 2020
ESA and NASA select first science instruments to send to Gateway
...platform for science in deep space and as an outpost for astronauts traveling onwards to the lunar surface. It is led by NASA. Following decisions at Space19+, ESA will build a Habitation module, communications systems and a refuelling module for the...
20 January 2021
"Mole" on NASA's InSight mission to dig no more
... heritage. What we attempted to do – to dig so deep with a device so small – is unprecedented,” said Troy Hudson, a scientist and engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California who has led efforts to get the mole deeper into the...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... interested in advanced SEP for use in their applications, especially for moving large masses to geosynchronous Earth orbits. NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate has been advancing the state-of-the-art SEP technologies resulting in several...
