Moon Mission

Home News Science & Astronomy China's Yutu 2 rover, as seen by the Chang'e 4 lander on the far side of the moon. (Image: © CNSA) China's far-side moon mission has turned its history-making gaze underground.The Chang'e 4 spacecraft touched down on the floor of the 115-mile-wide (186 kilometers) Von…

Home News Spaceflight An artist's depiction of the VIPER moon spacecraft. (Image: © NASA Ames/Daniel Rutter) NASA is delaying the launch of a long-lived rover designed to sniff out water on the moon.The agency announced plans for the  new VIPER mission (the name is short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration…

Katherine Johnson, the black woman whose mathematical genius took her from a behind-the-scenes job in a segregated NASA as portrayed in the film Hidden Figures to a key role in sending humans to the moon, died on Monday at the age of 101, NASA said. “Our NASA family is sad…

US President Donald Trump on Monday declared that he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were set to seal a “very major, among the biggest ever made” trade deals. He also said India should consider making the US its “premier partner in defence deals” from here on. Trump called Modi a…

Published on Feb 24, 2020This video uses data gathered from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft to recreate some of the stunning views of the Moon that the Apollo 13 astronauts saw on their perilous journey around the farside in 1970. These visualizations, in 4K resolution, depict many different views of…

Science & Technology The Artemis programme is a stepping stone for NASA’s “next giant leap”: To send astronauts to Mars By DTE Staff Last Updated: Monday 24 February 2020 United States space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that it will begin to accept applications for astronauts under…

For anyone reminiscing about their childhood, you may remember being asked at school “what do you want to be when you're older?” Doctor, sports player...astronaut! All very common answers, and although few of us follow through with our childhood dreams and career ambitions, now may be your chance to become…

XRP has been like a rocket ship ready for a moon mission, with crypto speculators predicting an immense rally against the dollar and Bitcoin.But either XRP is refueling its jets before more upside or has just taken a detour back into a selloff, as the price of the number three…

SpaceX has not yet received permission from NASA to fly astronauts aboard its Crew Dragon space capsule. But once it does receive permission -- perhaps just months from now, seeing as SpaceX's first crewed mission is expected to take off by mid-year -- NASA a…

For decades, NASA has been the kid politely asking for a raise in its allowance. Time was NASA’s pocket money was huge. Go back 54 years, to 1966, and the space agency was getting $5.9 billion a year—which would be a tidy $47 billion in 2020 dollars. That represented 4.1%…