Moon Mission

During an event at 10 a.m. EDT Friday, May 19, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, the agency will announce the company selected to develop a sustainable human landing system for the Artemis V Moon mission. The human landing system will take astronauts to and from Gateway in lunar orbit to…

Home News Spaceflight An artist's depiction of NASA's Lunar Flashlight cubesat at work around the moon. The briefcase-sized spacecraft suffered propulsion problems and didn't reach lunar orbit as planned. (Image credit: NASA) NASA has given up on the planned moon mission of its tiny Lunar Flashlight cubesat, which aimed to…

The Apollo 11 moon landing was one giant leap for womankind.  Credit Margaret Hamilton, a 32-year-old mother and computer whiz at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who wrote the software that placed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon on July 20, 1969.  She also worked on the five…

Guardian uncovers documents at odds with evidence used to jail Australian engineer in Iraq LONDON: Documents uncovered by The Guardian have called into question critical evidence used by Iraqi authorities to imprison Australian engineer Robert Pether, sparking calls for his release.  Pether and his colleague Khaled Saad Zaghloul were sentenced…

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Home References Spaceflight Artemis 2 mission specialist Jeremy Hansen, who will be the first non-American to leave low Earth orbit. (Image credit: NASA) Jeremy Hansen is a Canadian space astronaut scheduled to fly around the moon. Hansen the mission specialist aboard Artemis 2, is expected to start his 10-day mission…

Home News Spaceflight Future moonwalkers could benefit from underwater training at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, a facility already used by NASA for International Space Station missions. An early test here shows work with a prototype spacesuit and a small vehicle upon simulated moon regolith. (Image credit: NASA) Before walking on…

The heavens give off a bittersweet glow for Black Americans. They have been a harbinger of trauma. Enslaved Africans were ferried across the Atlantic Ocean by sailors tracking the stars and constellations to chart their course. When the full moon lit up the evening sky, many slaves were forced to…

The pilot of NASA’s historic return to the moon is a Christian who once took a Bible and communion cups to the International Space Station. Victor Glover is one of four astronauts that NASA announced on Monday would comprise the Artemis II crew that will travel to the moon and…

Familiar with recording some firsts of her own, the Sault’s Dr. Roberta Bondar says Jeremy Hansen’s involvement with the upcoming lunar-orbiting Artemis mission is historic for Canada and its space agency NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced last week that London, Ont., native Jeremy Hansen would join three…