Moon Mission

Jacobs Awarded Contract Extension at NASA Johnson Space Center Press Release From: Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Posted: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 Jacobs (NYSE:J) was awarded an extension to the Johnson Space Center Engineering, Technology and Science (JETS) contract at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Jacobs will continue providing critical support…

The first trailer from Netflix‘s upcoming workplace comedy Space Force has arrived. The series comes from The Office co-creators, Steve Carell and Greg Daniels, with Carell starring as a four-star general named Mark R. Naird. Based on President Trump’s sixth military branch of the same name, the series follows Naird,…

Elon Musk doesn’t appear to be worried about potential legal problems for tweeting that his company’s stock price was too high earlier this week after the Tesla CEO posted Louis Armstrong’s ‘What a Wonderful World’ on his Twitter feed on Saturday.‘One of the all-time best songs,’ Musk gushed on Twitter after…

 (CNN) -Vacant office buildings, factories and restaurants across the country serve as ghostly reminders of an economy shuttered by the Covid-19 pandemic. But the US space industry has remained open for business. SpaceX, for example, continues to build and test early prototypes of its Starship spacecraft, which CEO Elon Musk has long…

Blue Origin and SpaceX both recently received NASA contracts to help build the Moon Spacecraft. The largest of the contracts were awarded to Blue Origin, who received a total of $579 million, while SpaceX received $135 million for its Starship punitive. The NASA contracts will run until February 2021, and…

In the ‘90s, watch brand Omega put together a formidable A-Team: James Bond, Cindy Crawford, and a gaggle of Hollywood actors playing astronauts. The mission was straightforward, if challenging: turn around the storied watch house’s business. “At that time, Omega was a completely different company than it is today,” says…

NASA has given SpaceX and Blue Origin the nod to develop its new lunar landers which will take the first woman and the next man to the surface of the moon.The private spaceflight companies, owned by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, will develop competing systems in parallel, alongside a third…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is turning to private industry for the first lunar landers for astronauts in a half-century, with three competing, quite contrasting versions.NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Thursday the three companies that will develop, build and fly lunar landers, with the goal of returning astronauts to the…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated May 1 with details from Blue Origin. Artist’s illustration of SpaceX’s Starship on the lunar surface. Credit: SpaceXThe next time astronauts land on the moon, they will ride to the lunar surface in a spacecraft that looks a lot different than the Apollo-era landing module last used in…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is turning to private industry for the first lunar landers for astronauts in a half-century, with three competing, quite contrasting versions. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Thursday the three companies that will develop, build and fly lunar landers, with the goal of returning astronauts…