April 2024
ROOM at the 74th International Astronautical Congress
...is at least a couple of years away. Although NASA personnel love to use the strapline “back to stay” in connection with this programme, it is notable that the baseline for the Gateway involves it being crewed for only 30 days a year (over its planned...
10 November 2021
NASA moves human lunar landing mission to 2025
... of many different, interdependent projects including docking of Orion with HLS, updated spacesuits, and potentially the development of The Gateway, which if constructed, will be another port Orion can dock with. This ambitious mission therefore...
10 January 2024
NASA announces delays to astronaut lunar missions
... for Artemis III, which is planned to land the first astronauts near the lunar South Pole. Artemis IV, the first mission to the Gateway lunar space station, remains on track for 2028. "We are returning to the Moon in a way we never have before, and...
January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
... who would have to work in the microgravity environment for the long term. The most promising are related to novel exercise devices that we will test on the space station in 2024 and then hopefully fly to the gateway. However, ESA is also doing...
02 October 2019
First look at China's new spacecraft capable of deep-space travel
... and other deep-space destinations. Looking a lot like the crew and service module from NASA’s Orion spacecraft which the US agency hope will carry their astronauts to the Gateway ahead of lunar surface missions beginning in 2024, China...
16 July 2021
NASA's $25 billion FY2022 funding bill is approved
...’s request: $1.345 billion instead of $1.195 billion - a budget which also funds the Gateway, Advanced Cislunar and Surface Capabilities, Advanced Exploration Systems, and the Human Research Programme. This limited funding increase appears not nearly...
