Moon Mission

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…

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…