Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin mimics the moon’s gravity for NASA experiments during spaceflight
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity without straying too far from home.
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NASA’s powerful moon mining robot could dig 10,000 kg of soil in a single lunar day
Its key task would be to efficiently mine and transport lunar regolith – the loose rocky material covering the Moon's surface ...
Why it’s good for NASA that an asteroid carved out 2 grand canyons on the moon
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
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Trump’s Mars declaration raises questions about NASA’s moon mission
Trump’s pledge to go to Mars without mentioning the moon has caused some head-scratching and even consternation in the media.
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NASA doubles down on Moon-shot goals in Artemis mission, awarding $24 million to space contractors
After years of delays, NASA’s Artemis missions to the Moon commenced in a big way more than two years ago, starting with the ...
First Glimpse of the Moon: Blue Ghost Advances NASA’s Cutting-Edge Lunar Tech
Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 has taken a significant leap toward the Moon, with its successful second engine burn ...
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Moon missions in 2025: Five missions will help astronauts return to the moon
Unlike the Apollo flights, these aren’t just NASA missions that are getting us back to the moon. Get comfortable with the acronym CLPS, which stands for Commercial Lunar Payload Services.
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Despite Trump Order To End DEI, NASA Pledges To Land First Woman, First ‘Person of Color’ on the Moon
NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen and NASA astronaut Christina ...
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A year in isolation: 366-day mock moon mission wraps up in Russia
Related: NASA's 1st year-long mock Mars mission wraps ... recreated key stages of a crewed lunar mission: transit to the moon, docking with an orbital station, surface operations and the return ...
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NASA spacecraft flew by distant world. It saw unprecedented volcanism.
Jupiter's volcanic moon Io as captured by the Juno spacecraft on Oct. 15, 2023. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Image processing by Ted Stryk On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft ...
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Despite DEI demise, NASA still touts goal to land 1st woman, 1st person of color on moon
“With NASA’s Artemis campaign, we are exploring the moon for scientific discovery, technology advancement, and to learn how to live and work on another world as we prepare for human missions ...