Artemis missions through fiscal year (FY) 2025 projected to reach $86 billion,” the OIG report underscores the fact that “NASA’s development of a deep-space human exploration capability to reach the Moon as a precursor to Mars is the Agency’s most ambitious and costliest ongoing activity....
☾ Aug 23 —Chandrayaan-3,Shiv Shakti Point, Moon(69.373°S, 32.319°E):First annual observation of Vikram lander and Pragyan rover successfully landing on Moon in 2023, and India becoming 4th country to land on Moon, 1st near the Moon South Pole. ☆ Aug 23 — Amor Asteroid 2020 QW3:...
NASA will issue a draft solicitation in the coming weeks. This upcoming activity will lay out requirements for future development and demonstration of lunar landing capability to take astronauts between orbit and the surface of the Moon. This effort is meant to maximize NASA’s support...
We created acoding activitywith NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Center that lets you make music with planets! Millions of students will use it to learn about coding as part of code.org’sHour of Code. Have fun! JWST SONIFICATIONS! We worked with a team of scientists and a member of the blind ...
NASA’s goal: develop one or more competing human-rated Moon landers capable of landing astronauts on the lunar surface and safely returning them to an Orion spacecraft in lunar orbit. Towards that end, the space agency awarded Blue Origin’s “National Team” (including Draper, Lockheed Martin...
NASA said data linked to this activity would be publicly available and its cooperation with China was "transparent, reciprocal and mutually beneficial." NASA was not able to phase LRO's orbit to be at the optimal location during the landing of Chang'e-4 on Jan. 3 "for a number of reason...
The awards leverage NASA’s expertise with commercial innovation to support continued science at the orbiting laboratory and long-term human exploration at the Moon under Artemis, including landing the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface. ...
NASA awarded Axiom Space a $228.5 million contract to provide the outfits for the first moon landing in more than 50 years. The space agency is targeting late 2025 at the earliest to land two astronauts on the moon's south pole.
“There’s a lot of activity that’s going on in the moon,” study co-authorTom Watters, a lunar geologist and Smithsonian Institution scientist emeritus, tellsUSA Today’s Doyle Rice and Cybele Mayes-Osterman. “It’s just something that we have to keep in mi...
NASA's spacecraft Juno did a flyby of Jupiter's moon Io to learn more about the lunar body's volcanic activity. Jan 3, 2024 "Christmas tree cluster" found glowing green in space The dazzling green tree with seemingly sparkling blue and white lights was found in the Milky Way and ...