Today is a huge day. This is the last piece of big hardware that we need for Artemis 1 hard processing. And we’ve just been waiting a long time for this part of the vehicle to arrive so that we can get going on the next steps of our stacking operations. Standing an impressive 21...
China's Chang'e-6 mission, currently on its way to retrieve a sample of material from the far side of the moon, will test theories of why the lunar near and far side are so different. Having launched on May 3, Chang'e-6 is expected to land in early June within the Apollo double ...
NASA chooses SpaceX and Blue Origin to deliver rover, astronaut base to the moonNASA is planning to assign SpaceX and Blue Origin 'demonstration missions' for their Artemis Program lunar landers, with eyes to put a habitat on the moon by 2033.Space You will never turn off your computer aga...
Astronomers laud NASA's plan to protect the space environment, but the agency needs to act fast to make a difference.
Disney really whiffed their adaptation of Eoin Colfer’s early-oughts kids’ fantasy book series. Originally, Miramax had plans to bringArtemis Fowlto life as the start of a franchise in 2001, but the film languished in development hell for a decade, Disney acquired the rights, and for some...
The first humans flew into space nearly 60 years ago from the deserts of southern Kazakhstan and the Atlantic shores of Florida. Since then, we’ve learned a lot about what it takes to leave the planet.
The James Webb Space Telescope continues to take big strides toward becoming an operational observatory. Mission team members have begun the three-month process of aligning the $10 billion Webb, which launched on Dec. 25, NASA officials announced today (Feb. 3). In the past day or so, for...
And Boeing is an aerospace giant with a long history of achievement in the human spaceflight realm. The company is the prime contractor for the ISS, for example, and it built the first stage of NASA's huge Saturn V rocket, which launched the Apollo moon missions. So there's real ...
And NASA picked Starship as the first crewed lander for its Artemis program of lunar exploration, which aims to put boots back on the moon in the middle of this decade. Starship still has a number of hurdles to clear, however. For example, the system has yet to launch on an orbital ...