Moon Mission

NASA has taken a big step toward the launch of the Artemis I moon mission after placing the Orion crew capsule atop the mighty SLS rocket. The delicate operation was carried out on Wednesday, October 20, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. “One step closer,” the space agency said…

The Orion spacecraft for the Artemis 1 mission is lowered on top of its Space Launch System rocket Oct. 20 inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building. Credit: NASA/Frank Michaux Technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center worked overnight Wednesday to tighten 360 bolts connecting the Orion spacecraft for…

Home News Entertainment (Image credit: Mulholland Books) New York Times bestselling author, YouTube star, international speaker, and popular Twitter personality, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, has a creative eye on the moon in his first dive into fiction with last week's release of "The Apollo Murders" (Mulholland Books, 2021). It’s a…

Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center moved the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis 1 moon mission into the Vehicle Assembly Building Tuesday for stacking on top of the Space Launch System. The 67-foot-tall (20-meter) spacecraft, with its launch abort system tower attached, rolled into the iconic assembly building around 5…

An Australian-made rover is set to be launched to the Moon as part of a NASA space mission this decade.  Key points:The rover will collect lunar soil that contains oxygenThe government will provide $50 million to businesses and researchers to help develop the roverNASA is not expected to launch the mission…

What’s holding up US plans to go back to the moon? An argument over pre-flight meetings. NASA administrator Bill Nelson says he can’t firm up plans to return Americans to the moon by 2024 until a lawsuit against the space agency, brought by Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin, is…

A view of NASA’s Space Launch System inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building. This picture was taken Sept. 17 after retraction of work platforms ahead of the Umbilical Release and Retract Test. Credit: NASA/Frank Michaux The swing arms on the mobile launch tower for NASA’s Space Launch…

Jeff Bezos gives a thumbs-up after returning from space on July 20, 2021.  Blue Origin Blue Origin, the space company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, filed a complaint Monday in federal court against NASA. The lawsuit escalates Blue Origin's protest that NASA unjustly granted a lunar lander contract earlier…

Elon Musk has said each SpaceX Starship should last for 25-30 years which mean they would be able to make about 12 missions between Earth and Mars. When will Starship production become cost effective? Booster 20? Booster 200? — SPEXcast (@SPEXcast) August 14, 2021 Starship will be crushingly cost-effective for…

Looking to such specialized nervous systems as a model for artificial intelligence may prove just as valuable, if not more so, than studying the human brain. Consider the brains of those ants in your pantry. Each has some 250,000 neurons. Larger insects have closer to 1 million. In my research…