Washington (AFP) March 26, 2019 - Donald Trump's administration announced Tuesday it was speeding up plans to send US astronauts back to the Moon, from 2028 to 2024, calling for a spark of urgency to prevail over delays that have plagued NASA's lunar return plans.
Washington (AFP) March 26, 2019 - Vice President Mike Pence announced Tuesday that the United States intends to send astronauts back to the Moon within five years, with a woman first in line to set foot on the lunar surface.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 15, 2019 - For long-duration, deep space missions, astronauts will need a highly efficient and reconfigurable space, and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is researching and designing ways to support those missions.
Paris (ESA) Mar 14, 2019 - Assembly of a new habitable structure near the Moon, known as the Gateway, is scheduled to begin in 2023. The international project will allow humans to explore farther than ever before and it bring
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 13, 2019 - NASA scientists, engineers, and technologists are preparing for a new era of human exploration at the Moon, which includes a new launch system, capsule, and lunar-orbiting outpost that will serve as
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 12, 2019 - NASA has selected nine teams to continue the science legacy of the Apollo missions by studying pieces of the Moon that have been carefully stored an untouched for nearly 50 years. A total of $8 mill
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 12, 2019 - NASA has selected 12 science and technology demonstration payloads to fly to the Moon as early as the end of this year, dependent upon the availability of commercial landers. These selections repres
Paris (ESA) Mar 12, 2019 - The International Space Station partners have endorsed plans to continue the development of the Gateway, an outpost around the Moon that will act as a base to support both robots and astronauts expl
Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 - Small amounts of water are attached to lunar grains on the dayside of the Moon and migrate around depending on surface temperature, as reported in a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior S
San Antonio TX (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 - Using the Southwest Research Institute-led Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), scientists have observed water molecules moving around the dayside of
Washington (AFP) March 10, 2019 - New documentary Apollo 11, which tells the story of man's first steps on the Moon, contains footage so striking that it seems practically a crime that it remained hidden for nearly five decades.
Tokyo (AFP) March 6, 2019 - Toyota is teaming up with Japan's space agency on a planned mission to the Moon, with the Japanese auto giant expected to develop a lunar rover, officials and local media said Wednesday.
Jerusalem (AFP) March 5, 2019 - An Israeli spacecraft on its maiden mission to the moon has sent its first selfie back to Earth, mission chiefs said on Tuesday.
Beijing (XNA) Mar 01, 2019 - The rover and the lander of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work after sleeping during their second lunar night on the far side of the moon. The lander woke up at 7:52 a.m. last Friday, and
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 - When NASA solicits future investigations of the Moon five teams involving scientists and engineers at the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will be ready. The agency's De
Ottawa (AFP) Feb 28, 2019 - Canada will join NASA's space mission to put an orbiter around the Moon in a few years, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday.
