Moon Mission

NASA's new moon spacecraft is getting a next-generation communication system.  The Orion capsule undergoing preparations for the crewed Artemis 2 moon mission at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida recently received an essential piece of mission hardware. A laser communication module, called the Artemis 2 Optical Communications System (O2O),…

If NASA planning remains on the rails politically, technically and financially, the United States will plant new footprints on the moon toward the end of 2025. That touchdown, on a mission called Artemis 3, will be the first human lunar landing since Apollo 17 moonwalkers stirred up the gray dust…

Home News Spaceflight Artist's illustration of SpaceX's Starship vehicle on the moon. (Image credit: SpaceX) NASA is worried that SpaceX's giant new Starship vehicle won't be ready to carry astronauts to the surface of the moon in late 2025, as currently planned. In 2021, the agency selected Starship — the biggest…

Space The large landing vehicles planned for NASA’s upcoming moon missions could throw up large amounts of dust from the lunar surface, posing a possible danger to orbiters By Jonathan O’Callaghan Artist’s depiction of the Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander, which NASA has selected for its Artemis V mission Blue…

We are on the cusp of learning far more about the projected icy situation of the moon's permanently shadowed regions, or PSRs. Multiple nations are eying the moon's south pole with research teams plotting out how and where to explore the bottoms of the sun-shy features.  In some circles, however,…

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A 23-year-old woman named Leona Serao is striving to make history as the first Black woman pilot to fly across the globe solo. According to Yahoo News, Serao plans to embark on her goal this summer. RELATED: NASA Names First Black Man, First Woman Astronauts For Upcoming Moon Mission More Details…

News conferences outside the Capitol don't always attract a crowd of visitors and tourists — but most also do not feature astronauts in flight suits. "Sometimes I think, you know, NASA is the Dolly Parton of ... government agencies. Like everybody loves Dolly Parton," Sen. Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat…

Home News Spaceflight The crew of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission (left to right): NASA astronauts Christina Hammock Koch, Reid Wiseman (seated), Victor Glover, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. (Image credit: NASA) The first moon crew in half a century is starting to train for its highly anticipated 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…