30 April 2018
NASA cancels its lunar Resource Prospector mission
... and water - elements that would be essential for any explorers hoping to stay long term in a lunar settlement. These...to suffer setbacks when it was moved from the Human Exploration and Operations Directorate to the Science Mission Directorate (SMD)...
05 July 2019
JAXA, DLR to cooperate on Martian moons mission
... no stranger to sending spacecraft to other-world bodies to examine them up close. As part of their Hayabusa2 mission, which is currently exploring the asteroid Ryugu, the agency’s Mobile Asteroid and Surface Scout (MASCOT) lander ‘hopped’ across the...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
... is very different to what we are preparing for in terms of a future lunar base where it is foreseen to have hours of EVA exploration in the extreme and in difficult lunar environment. To date, no astronaut has ever performed more than three lunar...
10 December 2021
SpaceX launches NASA's IXPE mission
.... NASA Marshall manages the IXPE mission for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate as a project of the NASA’s Explorers Program. IXPE is an international collaboration between NASA, the Italian Space Agency, along with partners and providers...
12 July 2019
NASA reassigns top leaders in Moon 2024 programme
... role during the Space Shuttle Program. Hill, who previously served as the deputy associate administrator for exploration systems development, will now be a special advisor to Associate Administrator Steve Jurczyk. Tom Whitmeyer will take over...
February 2022
An interplanetary transportation system
To truly explore the stars, we must develop the capability to lift massive amounts of materials into space, which will require a ...
