After Sending a Tesla to Space, SpaceX Could Soon Send a Toyota to the Moon
25 Nov 2024, 08:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA says it will ask SpaceX to deliver a rover to the Moon, and Blue Origin to do the same with a habitat
Artemis Program Won't Be Limited to Transporting Humans, Two Cargo Landers Planned
20 Nov 2024, 17:37 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With help from industry leaders like Blue Origin and SpaceX, a lunar support structure vital to the long-term exploration won't be entirely reliant on humans.
NASA Looking for Rover-Independent Means to Evacuate Astronauts on the Moon's Surface
18 Nov 2024, 11:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The South Pole Safety: Designing the NASA Lunar Rescue System is meant to allow one astronaut to evacuate another without the use of a rover
NASA Narrows Down Moon Landing Sites List, Nine Areas Now in the Cards
1 Nov 2024, 23:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced this week nine locations on the Moon that may become the actual landing site for the Artemis III mission
NASA Astronauts Could Use AI and Photos of the Horizon to Navigate the Moon
15 Sep 2024, 01:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA released some details on three optical navigation technologies being researched for the Artemis program.
Crucial Element of the Artemis III Orion Spaceship Boards a Boat in Europe, Heading to US
23 Aug 2024, 14:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency and Airbus has shipped the third European Service Module for the Artemis III Orion spacecraft to the U.S.
NASA Looking to Establish a Logistics System on the Moon, Trash Management Included
20 Aug 2024, 10:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA is asking the space industry's help to come up with ideas for a logistics system on the Moon to serve the needs of the future human presence there
Moon Space Station's Robotic Arm Is Canadian, Because Canucks Know How to Make Them
11 Aug 2024, 00:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Gateway lunar space station will be equipped with a robotic arm made in Canada by the same company that supplied them for the Space Shuttle and ISS
Moon Astronauts Will Zip Down a 1,335-Foot Cable in Case of a Countdown Emergency
9 Aug 2024, 10:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA detailed the brand-new ground-based emergency egress system it will use starting with the Artemis II mission
Hot Burning Rocket Engines Could Turn the Moon's Surface Into Instant Landing Pads
4 Aug 2024, 02:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Plume Additive for Reducing Surface Ejecta and Cratering (PARSEC) is a tech meant to reduce the amount of regolith debris thrown up during Moon landings
This Platform Can Deploy Itself to Stop Moon Landings From Making a Mess of the Place
2 Aug 2024, 23:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Synthetic Orbital Landing Area for Crater Elimination (SOLACE) is a self-propelled landing pad meant to shield lunar surface from spacecraft landings
NASA Goes Full Steam Ahead With On-Demand Streaming Service Called NASA+
31 Jul 2024, 09:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced it will place all its weight behind the NASA+ on-demand streaming service, drops cable and over-the-air
Airborne Aircraft Beams 4K Video to the Space Station for the 1st Time, ISS Beams It Back
29 Jul 2024, 09:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA says it used an airborne aircraft to send an optical transmission to the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time
NASA Spreads Its LEGS Antennas to Create a Continuous Comms Link with the Moon
23 Jul 2024, 13:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA announced plans to enhance the capabilities of the Near Space Network with the addition of six antennas called Lunar Exploration Ground Sites
This Is How Small Humans Look Next to the Largest Rocket Core Stage NASA Ever Made
20 Jul 2024, 22:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA and aerospace giant Boeing started moving the core stage of the Artemis II SLS rocket to the Kennedy Space Center
NASA Shows Moon Space Station Ports Where SpaceX and Blue Origin Landers Will Dock
16 Jul 2024, 09:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA shares one of the first detail shots of one of the modules of the Gateway Moon space station, the HALO
Final RS-25 Engines From the Space Shuttle Era Now Ready to Serve the Artemis IV Mission
9 Jul 2024, 12:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Aerospace company Aerojet Rocketdyne announced it completed upgrades on the Space Shuttle era that will be flown on the Artemis IV mission
NASA Has a Huge Dust Problem Over on the Moon, Calls in HuLC to Handle It
2 Jul 2024, 12:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced the winners of the Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) that was meant to find a solution to lunar plume surface interaction
Video Shows the Gateway Moon Space Station in Such Detail It'll Make You Dizzy
26 Jun 2024, 13:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new animation video shows the upcoming Gateway Moon space station in never-before-seen detail, sadly we don't get a glimpse of the interior
Someone Smashed a 4.5 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite to Dust to Make LEGO-Like Bricks
19 Jun 2024, 11:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency (ESA) turned an old meteorite to dust to form LEGO-like bricks to test building materials and techniques for Moon structures