... 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)...
... 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...
... 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...
.... 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...
... 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...
To truly explore the stars, we must develop the capability to lift massive amounts of materials into space, which will require a ...