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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Artemis 2 Space Launch System core stage nearly finished
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NASA has finished fully integrating its second Space Launch System core stage, which will be used to send the Artemis 2 mission with four astronauts to the Moon late next year.
Read MoreSpacesuits 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 MoreSLS hot fire test ends prematurely, 2021 launch in question
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For the first time, NASA fired up the core stage for its Space Launch System, which is designed to send humans into deep space. However, an anomaly prompted the engines to shut down much earlier than planned.
Read MoreNASA seeks Moon ‘dirt’ for purchase
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Do you have Moon rocks to sell, or have a way to collect samples of the lunar surface? If so, you just might have a customer willing to pay for said samples!
On Sept. 10, 2020, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced a request for quotations for commercial companies to provide proposals to collect lunar samples from the Moon for the U.S. space agency to purchase.
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 MoreNASA details how Artemis missions prepare us for Mars
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While some of the near-term details of the Artemis program have yet to be finalized, it appears NASA is well on its way toward formalizing a plan for sustainable lunar and Mars exploration after the agency’s initial surface stay planned for 2024.
Read MoreMoon ahead! Rocket Lab selected to launch Gateway ‘pathfinder’ CubeSat
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Rocket Lab has been selected by NASA to send a small CubeSat toward the Moon on one of the first precursor missions to fly under the overall banner of the U.S. space agency’s Artemis program.
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.
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