With the nearly full moon shining overhead, two companies, one American and the other headquartered in Japan, launched privately-developed robotic lunar landers early Wednesday, sharing a sky-lighting ride to space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The U.S. lander, built by Austin, Texas-based Firefly Aerospace and known as “Blue Ghost,” …
WASHINGTON: A lucky Japanese astronaut will become the first non-American to set foot on the Moon during one of Nasa‘s upcoming Artemis missions, US President Joe Biden announced Wednesday.The offer to Japan, an opportunity many nations have long dreamed of, came as part of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida‘s state visit, …
Nasa is set not to receive a significant increase in its budget next year, according to the White House. The federal budget request for fiscal year 2025, which was released recently, allocates $25.4 billion to Nasa. This is a 2% increase from the $24.9 billion the agency received for fiscal …