Moon Mission

Personal Tech This week on The Kettle, we mull over whether the Steam Deck is a canary in the coal mine for the future of hardware prices, and the effect of Blue Origin's blowout on NASA's Moon missions It was explosive news week – if you're the price of a…

The latest flight of the New Glenn rocket was meant to prepare Blue Origin for a series of NASA-funded lunar voyages. Instead it ended before it began By Lee Billings edited by Claire Cameron Spaceflight Now screenshot/YouTube New Glenn, a giant rocket built and operated by Jeff Bezos’s aerospace firm…

Nasa announced on Tuesday ambitious plans for three uncrewed lunar missions this year to kickstart construction of a $20bn moon base, and said it had chosen the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, ahead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to conduct the first. The revelation by Nasa’s administrator, Jared Isaacman, at…

Lauren E. Low May 22, 2026 As NASA pushes the boundaries of exploration and innovation for the benefit of humanity, the agency is looking for partners to share mission stories covering Artemis Moon missions, nuclear propulsion, aeronautics, and more. NASA published an Announcement for Proposals on May 21 asking filmmakers,…

The Artemis 2 astronauts on Capitol Hill on May 12, 2026. (Image credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani) The Artemis generation has to deal with conspiracy theorists, too. The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis 2 mission were accosted on Capitol Hill earlier this month by an aggressive man, who accused them of faking…

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April 23, 2026, 7:33 PM EDT / Updated April 23, 2026, 9:47 PM EDT Less than two weeks after NASA’s Artemis II mission, the crew's observations from their lunar flyby are already providing insights into what it might take to build a base on the moon, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said Thursday. In…

(Image credit: NASA) NASA's ready for industry experts to join the agency under its new NASA Force initiative. NASA , in partnership with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), unveiled the NASA Force website on Friday (April 17). The aim is to "recruit and place high-impact technical talent into…

The Artemis II rocket blasted off on its historic moon mission on April 1, 2026. (Image credit: GREGG NEWTON/AFP via Getty Images) The successful Artemis II trip around the Moon was a historic achievement — the first crewed lunar fly-by in more than 50 years, and the greatest distance yet…

The crew of NASA's Artemis II mission have safely returned to Earth, but if your Moon fever has yet to break, or you're curious to get a big picture view of how the second of a planned five Moon missions was pulled off, PBS has a new documentary you'll want…