11 November 2020
Senate deals major blow to Bridenstine’s Moon ambitions
...elect Joe Biden. Four astronauts are headed up to the International Space Station (ISS) this weekend in the first newly certified crew ...President Mike Pence. Their plan would have launched the first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket this year, sending ...
18 September 2020
NASA chiefs hint that Artemis will land at Apollo site, not lunar poles
... first mission to land on the Moon in 2024; Artemis II is the first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System and is targeted for launch in 2022. Given the importance of the Moon’s South Pole for establishing lunar bases, NASA...
03 June 2021
Nelson announces NASA’s return to Venus
... public servants from the agency. Nelson said NASA will launch two Discovery Program missions - VERITAS and DAVINCI+ - ... at the Kennedy Space Center,” Nelson said. “That rocket is the Space Launch System (SLS). It will launch our Orion spacecraft and...
29 March 2019
NASA's Mars helicopter completes flight tests
... NASA Headquarters in Washington. The Mars Helicopter will launch as a technology demonstrator with the Mars 2020 rover on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket in July 2020 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida...
28 November 2015
NASA Set to Improve Orion's Heat Shield
...production time by about two months. Orion is planned for launch on NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at the end of 2018. “...on the vehicle's performance and how its systems functioned in space. Orion's heat shield is one of the most important ...
12 July 2019
NASA reassigns top leaders in Moon 2024 programme
... under the best of circumstances,” says House Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson. “Removing ...will carry it to the Moon and beyond, the Space Launch System. When asked specifically why Gerstenmaier was reassigned ...
