... unmanned rendezvous and docking in a lunar orbit around 380,000 kilometres away, a first in the history of space exploration. The orbiter containing the lunar material is programmed to land in northern China's Inner Mongolia region later in December...
... return to the Moon. NASA has the opportunity to again inspire a whole new generation of scientists, engineers, and explorers. This is why Blue Origin answered NASA’s urgent call to develop a Human Landing System. We built the National...
... the rigor of a long-duration, ground-based simulation. The series of missions - known as Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog - includes three one-year Mars surface simulations based at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The analogs...
... for crewed spacecraft represents a completely different challenge for engineers, but is no less important for the structured exploration of space… and it begins with learning to grow food in space. Obtaining all the same kinds of vitamins and...
Building a settlement on Mars has gained a lot of traction in the last few years but is the red planet the best place to establish such a base? According to a recent study, such a settlement is possible but, instead of targeting a close planetary ...
Astronomers studying the strange behaviour of a star in the cluster NGC 3201 have found an even more unusual reason for its mysterious movements – the gravitational pull of an invisible black hole with about four times the mass of the Sun. This is ...