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 MoreThe final first-generation Dragon spacecraft has been captured by the International Space Station’s robotic arm, marking the final time a SpaceX vehicle is planned to be berthed to the orbiting outpost.
Read MoreRocket 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 MoreWith some 3,700 kilograms of crew supplies and science experiments, the unpiloted NG-13 Cygnus spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station and was berthed to the Earth-facing port of the Unity module.
Read MoreAfter two scrubbed attempts, Northrop Grumman was finally able to launch its Antares rocket to get the company’s NG-13 Cygnus cargo ship into space and on a path toward the International Space Station.
Read MoreIn the fiscal year 2021 budget request, NASA looks to gain its largest year-over-year increase in decades as the agency sets its sights on returning astronauts to the Moon by 2024 while working to commercialize low Earth orbit.
Read MoreNASA astronaut Christina Koch, along with European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov, returned to Earth after a record-breaking stay aboard the International Space Station.
Read MoreAfter nearly three months at the International Space Station, the NG-12 Cygnus spacecraft was unberthed, released and commanded to depart the vicinity of the outpost to begin its post-ISS mission.
The spacecraft, named SS Alan Bean, was detached from the Earth-facing port of the Unity module during the morning of Jan. 31, 2020. Several hours later, at about 14:35 UTC, Cygnus was released and slowly drifted away.
Read MoreAstronauts aboard the International Space Station are observing the behavior of flames in differently-shaped confined spaces in the unique microgravity environment of the orbiting outpost.
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