NASA announced ambitious long-range plans Tuesday to spend $20 billion over the next seven years to build a moon base near the lunar south pole featuring habitats, pressurized rovers and nuclear power systems. The announcement came just over a week before the planned launch of NASA’s Artemis II around-the-moon mission. …
For the first time in more than 50 years, NASA is set to launch astronauts to the moon. NASA, as part of the upcoming Artemis II mission, plans to send four astronauts on a flight around the far side of the moon. The crew could fly deeper into space than …
This month, NASA is aiming to launch four astronauts atop a 32-story rocket on a 10-day mission around the far side of the moon. The flight of Artemis II will be NASA’s first human mission to the moon since Apollo 17, 53 years ago. NASA sees it as a critical …
With a space station medical evacuation safely completed, NASA is focused on two challenging missions proceeding in parallel: launching four astronauts on a flight around the moon, at the same time as the agency is planning to send four replacement astronauts to the International Space Station. Engineers plan to haul …
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 …