Moon Mission

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…

Nasa is turning to private industry for the first lunar landers for astronauts in half a century – with three competing, quite contrasting versions.Nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine announced on Thursday the three companies that will develop, build and fly lunar landers, with the goal of returning astronauts to the moon…

NASA is turning to private industry for the first lunar landers for astronauts in a half-centuryBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace WriterApril 30, 2020, 10:15 PM4 min readCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA is turning to private industry for the first lunar landers for astronauts in a half-century, with three competing, quite…

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 to…

Nasa is turning to private industry for the first lunar landers for astronauts in half a century – with three competing, quite contrasting versions. asa administrator Jim Bridenstine announced on Thursday the three companies that will develop, build and fly lunar landers, with the goal of returning astronauts to the…

NASA went with big names SpaceX and Blue Origin as well as lesser-known Dynetics as the three commercial companies vying to build lunar landers for its Artemis missions to return humans to the moon by 2024. The three contracts worth $967 million are for design and development of human landing…

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Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order reaffirming that companies joining US mining activities on the moon would have property rights over lunar resources. The order also made clear the US wasn’t bound by international treaties on the moon. Instead, the US would set up a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — What President Donald Trump says and does often flies in the face of mainstream science. Coronavirus and the idea of injecting disinfectants is only the latest episode. When a rare solar eclipse happened in 2017, astronomers and eye doctors repeatedly warned people not to stare directly at…