NASA administrator Bill Nelson has called the IM-1 mission a "triumph" and a "giant leap forward for all of humanity". In a televised statement following the successful landing, he said: "Today for the first time in more than half a century the US has returned to the...
NASA contracted the company Intuitive Machines to make a landing attempt on the moon. You can watch the ambitious mission live on NASA's website, NASA Television, the NASA app, or on NASA+.
Artemis 2is an eight-day mission that will send three NASA astronauts and one Canadian Space Agency astronaut around the moon on a free-return trajectory. It is the last test flight before theArtemis 3crewed moon landing mission in 2025. See our complete coverage of the Artemis 2 mission bel...
NASA and the UK Space Agency have congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation after it oversaw the successful landing of the Chandrayaan-3 mission on the south pole of the moon. "History made," the UK Space Agency said on X, formerly Twitter. "Congrat...
Machines IM-1 mission in February 2024. Future NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) and Human Landing System (HLS) task orders might be issued asap for the highly valuable, high ground at ~5,000 meters on Malapert Massif “the mountain on the Moon”. Exploration of the South Pole...
But NASA has not yet announced any such changes. The Artemis program aims to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since the Apollo program's last lunar landing in 1972. In so doing, the space agency would get there well ahead of China, which plans to land its "taikonauts" ...
NASA has refined its list of potential landing sites near the moon's south pole for its Artemis 3 mission, which aims to return astronauts to the lunar surface no earlier than 2026. The nine shortlisted sites, which were released by NASA on Monday (Oct. 28), are geologically...
“Although the new [Biden] Administration has publicly expressed support for the Artemis missions, it has not weighed in on the Agency’s current plans for a lunar landing by the end of 2024,” the OIG report points out. Credit: NASA “Nonetheless, achieving any date close to this ambitious...
NASA is celebrating the 50thanniversary of the moon landing on Friday, July 19, by ringing the closing bell at Nasdaq. The mission to perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth was set forth by President John F. Kennedy in 1962. Eight years later, on July 20, 1969, the Apollo...
[01:08.92]threatened NASA's work, especially before such a critical election. [01:15.76]If Congress approves $3.2 billion in financing by December 25, [01:23.44]he said "we're still on track for a 2024 moon landing....