17 February 2021
NASA forecasts cost of Artemis programme at $86 billion
... Congress funded it to the tune of $850 million in a very bipartisan bill.” Without the full budget for the lunar lander, “NASA is going to have to do an assessment and make a determination as to whether or not 2024 is going to be achievable or not...
July 2019
Developing life support systems for human exploration missions beyond Earth
... of that oxygen is now being reclaimed from the captured CO2. Artist’s concept of NASA’s Deep Space Gateway in lunar orbit. This will be the first outpost beyond low Earth orbit and is intended to serve as a stepping stone...
25 October 2019
Ride-sharing mission hopes to study asteroid up close
... outlined two more research opportunities: the chance to send payloads to the Moon's surface on Lockheed Martin's McCandless Lunar Lander; and the chance to take part in Milo's NEOshare mission to launch a cluster of six small satellites to study...
03 September 2021
Anomaly causes rocket to explode on maiden flight
... services, Firefly was awarded a $93.3 million contract under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services programme to deliver science payloads to the Moon on its Blue Ghost lunar lander. “Shoot,” Dodd says after the explosion. “Aw, man, shoot. That...
June 2015
Space, secular stagnation, and the economic crisis
... development on the Moon, where we proved human single stage to orbit technology with the lift-off of the lunar lander in 1969, would completely transform the way that humans travel in the solar system. It would do this by utilising...
August 2019
Space investment – from build-up to breakthrough
... his commercial vision to explore the Moon when he unveiled the design of Blue Origin’s proposed ‘Blue Moon’ lunar lander in Washington on 9 May 2019. Success and failure The opportunities and successes visible today were built on the...
