Beijing, China (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 - If human beings want to survive on the other planets for a long time, they must first find or set up a safe, stable, and long-term shelter. Lunar lava tubes are geological structures of the moon dis
Orlando FL (SPX) Dec 06, 2022 - Establishing a Moon base will be critical for the U.S. in the new space race and building safe and cost-effective landing pads for spacecraft to touch down there will be key. These pads will h
Washington (AFP) Dec 6, 2022 - NASA's Orion spaceship made a close pass of the Moon and used a gravity assist to whip itself back towards Earth on Monday, marking the start of the return journey for the Artemis-1 mission.
Beijing, China (SPX) Dec 06, 2022 - A research team led by Prof. LI Yang and Dr. GUO Zhuang from the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGCAS) conducted in-situ electron microanalysis of spherical iron-sulfi
Paris (ESA) Dec 05, 2022 - Today at 17:43 CET (16:43 GMT) the European Service Module for Orion fired its main engine at less than 127 km from the Moon's surface to put the Artemis spacecraft on a collision course with Earth.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 05, 2022 - NASA delivered the first flight hardware for the Lunar Pathfinder mission to ESA (European Space Agency), which formally accepted the instrument on Nov. 4. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Gree
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 05, 2022 - Orion performed the second return trajectory correction burn on Sunday, Dec. 4, at 10:43 a.m. CST, using the auxiliary thrusters and increasing the spacecraft's velocity by 1.16 mph (1.71 feet per s
Paris (ESA) Dec 01, 2022 - Mission 1 is the first mission of the HAKUTO-R lunar exploration programme from the company ispace, based in Tokyo, Japan, with offices in Luxembourg and the US. It will be launched into a low-energ
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 01, 2022 - The Artemis I mission management team met to review the overall status of the flight test and polled go for Orion to depart from its distant retrograde orbit, where it has been since Nov. 25. Orio
Washington (AFP) Nov 30, 2022 - SpaceX on Wednesday postponed by one day a mission to launch the first private - and Japanese - lander to the Moon.
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 29, 2022 - NASA's Orion space capsule reached its farthest distance from Earth on Monday and successfully completed the first half of a mission that aims to ultimately return American astronauts to the moon.
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 28, 2022 - On the 12th day of the Artemis I mission, team members conducted another planned test of the star trackers aboard Orion as it continued along a distant retrograde orbit of the Moon, and began anothe
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 27, 2022 - On day 11 of the Artemis I mission, Orion continues its journey beyond the Moon after entering a distant retrograde orbit Friday, Nov. 25, at 3:52 p.m. CST.
Haikou (XNA) Nov 26, 2022 - The China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Thursday revealed the international payloads that will piggyback on the Chang'e 6 lunar exploration mission, and announced another call for internat
Paris (ESA) Nov 26, 2022 - The European Service Module is powering Orion to the Moon and back, providing electricity, propulsion, keeping electronics and the crew module at the right temperature and, on the next Artemis missi
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 26, 2022 - NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft is expected to begin its orbit around the moon on Friday afternoon, following its launch earlier in the week. Orion will perform an engine burn at 4:52 p.m. E
