Once sunlight can no longer reach the lander’s solar panels, operations will end. Intuitive Machines expects that to happen sometime between Tuesday afternoon and early Wednesday. The mission, part of NASA’s effort to boost the lunar economy, was supposed to last until at least Thursday, whe...
(Image credit: NASA) Half a century after NASA sent men to the moon under project "Apollo," the space agency is now working to land men — and women — on the lunar surface as part of its "Artemis" program. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine revealed the new moniker on Monday (May ...
He said Congress could help by adding $5.4 billion to a jobs bill to help fund lander development and infrastructure upgrades to replace or repair aging NASA facilities. Such funding also could help pay for development of the spacesuits moon walkers will need and development of new propulsion te...
Flight International can reveal NASA's draft plans for its Constellation programme's Lunar Lander team, as the US space agency prepares for a lessons-learned meeting with a dozen retired Apollo Lunar Module engineers on 20 July.ROB COPPINGERFlight international...
After years of development and countless tests of its rocket and crew capsule,NASAalmost has all the hardware it needs to send astronauts back to the moon. For the first time since the Apollo program, NASA is shopping for a new lander for its Artemis program. ...
NASA HAS big plans for the Moon. By the end of the decade, it wants to send humans back to the lunar surface. Before then, though, it intends to send probes to look for ice at its south pole. This ice carries enormous scientific value. It could shed light on how Earth acquired its...
Lunar lander is on its side on the moon’s surface NASA has shared more details about yesterday's historic moon landing, when Intuitive Machines became the first commercial company to successfully touch down on the moon's surface. The company shared an image taken by its Odysseus lander of it...
carries 10 payloads including for NASA CLPS to Mare Crisium after 45-day journey with orbits of Earth and Moon; Intuitive MachinesNova-C landerAthenafor IM-2 mission expected to arrive soon at KSC, will carry NASA CLPS payloads to Mouton Plateau (Leibnitz); all will launch NET January via...
Despite a stalled space shuttle program, NASA is confident it can launch and sustain human exploration of the Moon by 2018, the space agency's top official said Monday. The $104-billion plan calls for an Apollo-like vehicle to carry crews of up to four astronauts to the Moon for seven-...
Michael Meyer, NASA’s lead scientist for Mars exploration, said the Martian surface is too cold and dry, with too much radiation bombardment, for life to currently exist. Recorded observations of Mars — about double the size of Earth’s moon — date back to ancient Egypt. But it wasn’...