Moon Mission

SUPPLIEDUnfavourable weather conditions put paid to Rocket Lab's latest mission on June 11.Rocket Lab abandoned Thursday night's planned launch because of high winds. The launch from the Rocket Lab base on Māhia Peninsula originally planned for late March was postponed because of the coronavirus lockdown. Thursday's scheduled 5.15pm departure was…

Xplore To Host Space for Humanity Payload on its First Moon Mission Press Release From: Xplore Posted: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 Xplore Inc., a commercial space company providing Space as a Service TM today announced that space industry leader Dylan Taylor plans to reserve payload space on Xplore's first mission…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is making claims on space that are off course from reality.Over the weekend, he took full credit for the government's role in the launch of SpaceX, the first-ever private spacecraft to attain orbit with astronauts on board. Trump also asserted that he saved the…

IT WAS ONE of those neat bits of symmetry that history seems to enjoy. On May 30th, at 15.22 local time, Douglas Hurley, an American astronaut, blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on his way to the International Space Station (ISS). The last time Colonel…

IT WAS ONE of those neat bits of symmetry that history seems to enjoy. On May 30th, at 15.22 local time, Douglas Hurley, an American astronaut, blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on his way to the International Space Station (ISS). The last time Colonel…

Saturday, May 30th 2020, 4:00 pm - Rocket, spacecraft and astronauts were go for launch, and this time the weather cooperated! After being delayed by weather earlier this week, NASA and SpaceX made history on Saturday. The Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully lifted off from Launch Complex 39A, at Kennedy Space…

NASA Astronauts Doug Hurley, closest, and Bob Behnken simulate their upcoming mission in SpaceX's Crew Dragon training vehicle in Hawthorne.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley have trained for years for this moment.They spent, at minimum, hundreds of hours learning the intricacies of…

The Orion and ESM for Artemis I is currently going through testingThe European Space Agency has asked the aerospace company Airbus to build another service module for the Americans' Orion crew capsule.This contract, worth around €250m (£225m), is particularly noteworthy, however.That's because the hardware will be part of the mission…

Image copyright NASA Image caption The Orion and ESM for Artemis I is currently going through testing The European Space Agency has asked the aerospace company Airbus to build another service module for the Americans' Orion crew capsule.This contract, worth around €250m (£225m), is particularly noteworthy, however.That's because the hardware…

NASA is seeking US citizens for an eight-month study on social isolation in preparation for missions to Mars and the moon. The international space agency is preparing for its next spaceflight simulation study and is seeking healthy participants to live together with a small crew in isolation for eight months…