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 ...
17 November 2020
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts arrive at the ISS
...-1 astronauts will join Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA, and station Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Flight Engineer Sergey Kud-Sverchkov... the crew from the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, and JAXA ...
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...
08 January 2018
Dream Chaser passes major NASA milestone
... Space Station from 2020, as part of its contract with NASA’s Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCAP) program. Owned and operated...respectively. The Cargo System side was selected by NASA to provide cargo delivery and disposal services to...
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...
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
... an initial goal of reducing cost per pound of cargo to orbit to $1,000.11 This figure is traceable to a series of studies fostered by NASA and the US Department of Defense from the 1970s–90s.12 Those studies pointed to launch costs as the constraint...
