Moon Mission

        | Updated: Saturday, December 10, 2022, 7:01 Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA Artemis I Moon Mission embarked on its maiden voyage on November 16. The uncrewed Orion spacecraft launched a suite of 10 CubeSats, small satellites that are built to perform tasks including photographing the lunar surface…

Home News Spaceflight Artemis 1 is almost home, and NASA is readying for the next stages already. The Orion spacecraft of Artemis 1 is expected to splash down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday (Dec. 11), and the agency is already looking ahead to future missions of the Artemis program.…

NASA’s Artemis Mobile Launcher rolls into High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building on Friday, Dec. 9. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky The mobile launch platform for NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket rolled back into the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center Friday for inspections and repairs after liftoff…

        | Updated: Friday, December 9, 2022, 14:19 It’s finally happening! After four years of wait, SpaceX's first civilian Moon mission seems set to escape Earth’s gravity. Back in 2018, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa along with Elon Musk, announced his idea for a week-long mission where he…

Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut, will really go to the moon. He will be on the Dear Moon SpaceX mission to go around the moon. The Dear Moon mission is a SpaceX Superheavy Starship flight purchased by billionaire, Yusaku Maezawa(MZ). The mission profile will be similar to the Apollo 8…

Home News Science & Astronomy An artist's depiction of the James Webb Space Telescope in deep space. (Image credit: Kevin Gill) Two major NASA missions that have launched in the past year are revealing a communications weakness in space. NASA communicates with all of its distant spacecraft — from the…

NASA will provide live coverage of the Artemis I uncrewed Orion spacecraft’s return flyby of the Moon on Monday, Dec. 5, as well as its return to Earth on Sunday, Dec. 11...Read More

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Synopsis Prof Martin Rees attributed that noticeable improvement in the space programs from the Apollo era and the current ones to advancement in computers and robotics. He said it was only logical to replace humans with robots to achieve better efficiency, cheaper costs, and enhanced safety.AgenciesThe Artemis Moon exploration could…

As NASA plans for long-term human exploration of the Moon under Artemis, new technologies are required to meet the unique challenges of living and working on another world...Read More