Moon Mission

NASA’s Lunar Flashlight spacecraft. Credit: NASA NASA’s Lunar Flashlight — a small spacecraft to measure water ice in dark craters near the moon’s poles — will now launch as a piggyback payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket late this year after delays caused it to miss a ride on…

It's time for NASA's astronauts to get some new space duds before they rocket off to set foot on the moon with the Artemis program. On Wednesday, NASA revealed it has selected Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to develop new spacesuits for moonwalks and for spacewalks from the International Space…

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EDT on Friday, May 27, to discuss the status of the next wet dress rehearsal test of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of the uncrewed Artemis I…

Home News Spaceflight NASA's first Space Launch System, the Artemis 1 moon rocket, stands atop Launch Pad 39B during sunrise in this photo taken March 23, 2022. (Image credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky) While Artemis 1's rocket and spacecraft are back in the shop for a few more weeks, NASA has released…

So it’s easy to understand why many of the operational details of humans’ brains (and even the brains of mice and much simpler organisms) remain so mysterious, even to neuroscientists. People often think of technology as applied science, but the scientific study of brains is essentially applied sensor technology. Each…

NEW DELHI: Space agency Isro has shown the first glimpse of the country’s third lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 in a documentary. Chandrayaan-3, which is in the assembly phase and is expected to be launched in August this year. The photos of the moon mission were part of a documentary titled ‘Space…

NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket arrives outside the Vehicle Assembly Building before dawn Tuesday. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now NASA rolled the giant new rocket for the Artemis 1 moon mission off the launch pad back inside the Vehicle Assembly Building before dawn Tuesday at the Kennedy Space Center,…

Russia’s moon cooperation plans are yet another space causality of the country’s ongoing attack against Ukraine. In an April 13 statement, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced it was severing cooperative activities with Russia on the upcoming Luna-25, 26 and 27 missions. The agency wrote that “the Russian aggression against…

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NASA will hold a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 18, to discuss the status of the next wet dress rehearsal test of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft at Launch Complex 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of…