Astronauts assigned to the Artemis 2 Moon mission
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The Artemis 2 astronauts were announced in Houston, marking the first time in the 21st century a human crew has been assigned to fly a mission to the Moon.
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Spacesuits revealed for Artemis 3 Moon landing
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When NASA astronauts return to the surface of the Moon in the next several years, they’ll be using a spacesuit built by Axiom Space.
Read MoreOpinion: The future of the Artemis program under Joe Biden
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With the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the next president and vice president of the United States, I felt it best to talk about what is likely to happen in the coming months regarding human spaceflight and NASA as the Biden administration takes over the executive branch of the federal government.
Read MoreNASA awards contracts for human-rated Moon landers
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Just over a year after the announcement of the Artemis program and its goal to return humans to the surface of the Moon by 2024, NASA has finally awarded the initial contracts for the most important piece of architecture to achieve that goal: human landing systems. These are the first contracts to build human-rated lunar landers since the Apollo era.
Read MoreAfter years of delays, the first SLS core stage is complete
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The first flight core for the long-delayed Space Launch System is finally complete and ready for final testing ahead of the Artemis 1 mission. On Dec. 9, 2019, NASA unveiled the 8.4-meter-wide, 64.6-meter-long stage to members of the media at the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
Read MoreNASA shares its lunar 'pallet lander' concept with industry
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NASA recently released a technical paper for a mid-sized “pallet lander” system it hopes industry can develop in order to send payload, such as a robotic rover, to the Moon’s south pole.
According to NASA, multiple agency centers contributed to the design and it hopes industry can use part or all of the concept in the Commercial Lunar Payloads Services program, also called CLPS.
Read MoreNASA seeking industry input on lunar spacesuit production
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With NASA’s 2024 Moon landing deadline fast approaching, a number of hardware elements need to be developed and tested in short order. One of those is a lunar surface spacesuit.
On Oct. 4, 2019, NASA announced in a request for information that it was seeking industry feedback to help “refine and mature” a strategy for production and services for spacesuits that will be used by astronauts in the agency’s Artemis Moon program.
Read MoreCubeSat to verify spacecraft operations in lunar halo orbit
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Before NASA begins sending Lunar Gateway hardware into space for the agency’s Artemis program, it plans a pathfinder CubeSat mission in the same deep space orbit around the Moon.
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