Washington DC (SPX) May 01, 2020 - NASA has selected three U.S. companies to design and develop human landing systems (HLS) for the agency's Artemis program, one of which will land the first woman and next man on the surface of the M
Washington DC (AFP) Apr 30, 2020 - NASA on Thursday awarded almost $1 billion in contracts to three space companies including those owned by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to develop lunar landers as the United States seeks to return human
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 30, 2020 - NASA hasn't measured moonquakes since Apollo astronauts deployed a handful of measuring stations at various locations on the lunar surface and discovered unexpectedly that Earth's only natural satel
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 28, 2020 - As astronauts explore the Moon during the Artemis program, they may need to make use of the resources that already exist on the lunar surface. Take water, for instance: Because it's a heavy and ther
Flagstaff AZ (USGS) Apr 23, 2020 - Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the moon? Well, the USGS has just released a new authoritative map to help explain the 4.5-billion-year-old histo
Beijing (XNA) Apr 17, 2020 - The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 17th lunar day on the far side of the moon after sleeping during the extremely cold night. The lander woke up at 1:24 p.
Milan, Italy (SPX) Apr 17, 2020 - Can 3D Printers support extra-terrestrial colonisation in Space? One of the major challenges related to space exploration is the development of production technologies capable of exploiting the few
Paris (ESA) Apr 17, 2020 - Almost 50 years after the Apollo missions returned lunar material to Earth, ESA experts are helping to uncover the secrets of two previously unopened samples to learn more about ancient processes on
London, UK (SPX) Apr 15, 2020 - If someone had been watching as Apollo 15's Falcon Lunar Module headed down beside the Moon's Appenine mountains in 1971, then this is what they would have seen. ESA researchers, working with UK com
Tokyo (Sputnik) Apr 14, 2020 - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is planning to launch a micro explorer to the Moon's orbit using a solid-fuel Epsilon rocket in the first half of the 2020s, the Kyodo news agency reported on
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 13, 2020 - Future exploration of the Moon and beyond will require tools of all shapes and sizes - from sweeping orbiters to the tiniest of rovers. In addition to current planned scientific rovers like the Vola
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 10, 2020 - The 50th anniversary of Apollo 13's launch on Saturday recalls a NASA tragedy that turned into a triumph of training and innovation.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 - Moon dust is a formidable adversary - the grains are as fine as powder and as sharp as tiny shards of glass. During the Apollo 17 mission to the Moon, the astronauts lamented how the dust found its
Lexington, KY (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 - Space Tang reports it has been awarded funding for three projects focused on biomedical application development on the International Space Station (ISS) that will be supported by the NASA Research O
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 - NASA has selected Masten Space Systems of Mojave, California, to deliver and operate eight payloads - with nine science and technology instruments - to the Moon's South Pole in 2022, to help lay the
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 - On April 11, 1970, the powerful Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 13 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center propelling astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert on what was intended
