Launches, science, astronauts: What 2025 will bring for space exploration from Florida
From record launch rates, to new astronaut missions and science - 2025 promises to be a year like no other in space ...
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission to take macro-measurements of moon's surface in 2025
Before Artemis II, NASA will send two missions to scout the surface of the lunar south pole for resources that could sustain ...
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NASA Won’t Be Sending Astronauts To The Moon Next Year Or Even The Year After. Here’s Why They’ve Cancelled Their Plans.
And given he’s even planning to land on Mars in the not too distant future, it’s easy to start wondering if national space ...
Jared Isaacman, NASA’s New Chief, Sees Millions Of Spacefarers Ahead
Billionaire aeronaut Jared Isaacman, the NewSpace superstar set to head NASA, says he envisions millions of space sojourners ...
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Texas-based Firefly Aerospace gets another NASA moon mission, a $179.6M deal that's part of Artemis
NASA gives the commercial space company a $179.6 million contract to deliver six scientific instruments to the moon’s surface ...
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Former US President Jimmy Carter dies at 100, but his voice continues 'into the cosmos'
Carter made few contributions to NASA history, but a key decision helped shape 30 years of U.S. spaceflight. The ...
The remote Kazakh Steppe that became a gateway to space
In remote Kazakhstan, photographer Andrew McConnell captured astronauts’ return from the ISS — and the nomadic communities ...
2024: The year US private companies reached new frontiers in space exploration
From SpaceX’s Axiom Mission 3 to Rocket Lab’s 50th Electron launch, 2024 marked major milestones in commercial space, ...
NASA’s micro-mission Lunar Trailblazer will make macro-measurements of the lunar surface in 2025
Aboard the lander are two instruments: The Regolith and Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain, TRIDENT, and the Mass Spectrometer for Observing Lunar Operations, MSOLO. TRIDENT will dig down up to 3 ...
Moon rock donated to Ireland by Apollo astronauts was destroyed by fire
A priceless piece of lunar rock given to Ireland following a Nasa mission was lost in a fire at Dunsink Observatory, newly ...
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer to Map Moon in 2025
NASA's upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the Moon no sooner than April 2026. Astronauts were last on the Moon in 1972 ...
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What Would Happen If We Put A Swimming Pool On The Moon? It Would Be Pretty Awesome, Actually
Humans have a lot more weight to them, making this option pretty much a nonstarter, at least on Earth.