11 February 2016
$19 Billion NASA Budget Proposed by White House
... three-year-old proposal to send a robotic spacecraft to a near Earth asteroid and bring back a boulder from it to cislunar space to be visited by astronauts. That request includes $66.7 million for work on the robotic spacecraft, called the Asteroid...
17 August 2016
NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission Review Complete
...-earth space. The spacecraft will retrieve a boulder of a few meters in diameter from the asteroid and bring it to cislunar space. An manned Orion mission, planned for 2026, will then visit the boulder for research purposes...
01 August 2018
What now for the ISS as new audit report questions commercial interest
... moon. Any extension of the ISS past 2024 would therefore mean less (or no) money for the agency’s cislunar or deep space ambition, so naturally something has to give. And at this moment in time, it is the ISS which is looking...
21 June 2019
Artemis-1 flight faces delays suggests new report
... production programs on a large-scale and should not be unexpected,”says Gerstenmaier. “NASA’s goal for returning humans to cislunar space remains on track.”
18 December 2019
US Senate suggests Artemis delay after requested funding halved
... Research and Development receives $1,435 million, of which $450 million is for Gateway, $600 million is for Advanced Cislunar and Surface Activities (the human lunar landers), $140 million for the Human Research Program, and...
27 January 2020
US bill spurns Moon programme favouring Mars instead
...be 'repurposed’ under the new bill. Instead of a lunar Gateway, the bill advocates the requirement of a “Gateway to Mars” in cislunar space or at a Lagrange point. The martian Gateway, that specifically “shall not be required for the conduct of human...
