Moon Mission

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…

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…