NASA’s plans to land both robots and humans on the moon have taken several steps forward. A solicitation for scaled-up robotic landers has been released by the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, and plans for human moon landers have changed to make room for more innovation by private partners. NASA will be supporting the development of these vehicles with new partnerships, aiming to mature technologies for both Moon and Mars missions.
A new amendment to the White House’s Fiscal Year 2020 budget request increases NASA’s federal…
NASA has been tasked with returning humans to the surface of the moon by 2024.…
Vice President Mike Pence has instructed NASA to land Americans on the Moon within the…
NASA’s vision of returning to the moon is getting clearer. With small, robotic missions en…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Thursday, carrying a payload of three…
For the second time in as many months, a new mission to the moon is…
Following a December 7, 2018 launch on a Long March-3B/G3Z rocket, China has now landed…
In the history of spaceflight, three nations have successfully landed a spacecraft on the surface…
Like most years, 2017 saw numerous scientific advancements and discoveries throughout the solar system and…
Speaking at the 2017 International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia, Elon Musk has laid out…
Continuing its exploration at the ringed giant of the solar system, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has…
Following from their Mars-500 “long duration” simulation in 2011-2012, the Institute of Biomedical Problems in…
Robert Bigelow, founder and President of Bigelow Aerospace, believes that space property rights are essential…
China’s Chang’e-3 and the lunar rover Yutu (Jade Rabbit) have landed on the lunar surface…
The Chinese have begun their most ambitious lunar mission to date, following the successful launch…
NASA’s latest mission to the Moon launched aboard an Orbital Sciences Minotaur rocket Friday night.…
The House Science space subcommittee’s 2013 Authorization Act intends to refocus NASA’s exploration path towards…
Two months after signing a non-funded Space Act Agreement (SAA) with NASA, Bigelow Aerospace has…
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden has strongly ruled out missions to land on the Moon as…
