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NASA awards Blue Origin new lunar mission to deliver VIPER rover in 2027
Sep 22, 2025 (SPX)
"NASA is leading the world in exploring more of the Moon than ever before, and this delivery is just one of many ways we're leveraging U.S. industry to support ...
NASA Prepares Artemis II Rocket with Crew Upgrades for Lunar Flight
Sep 22, 2025 (SPX)
Artemis I proved SLS's precision and strength, with its first flight exceeding expectations for control and stability while returning extensive data for enginee...
NASA Uses Colorado Mountains for Simulated Artemis Moon Landing Course
Sep 11, 2025 (SPX)
The mountains in northern Colorado offer similar visual illusions and flight environments to the Moon. NASA partnered with the Colorado Army National Guard at t...
NASA opens student competition for 2026 human lander innovations
Sep 03, 2025 (SPX)
The competition seeks innovative ideas in known technology development areas that will improve lander systems used to transport astronauts to and from the Moon'...
NASA seeks volunteers to track Artemis II space mission
Aug 27, 2025 (UPI)
"By offering this opportunity to the broader aerospace community, we can identify available tracking capabilities outside the government," Kevin Coggins, NASA's...
NASA's Artemis II lunar science operations to inform future missions
Aug 22, 2025 (SPX)
While the Artemis II crew will be the first humans to test NASA's Orion spacecraft in space, they will also conduct science investigations that will inform futu...
Solar System Internet Achieves Breakthrough DTN Edge Processing Test on Lunar Mission
Aug 22, 2025 (SPX)
The demonstration validated the use of DTN technology, engineered to maintain robust communications in high-latency space environments. The test showed that adv...
LunaGrid Lite advances toward lunar power transmission milestone
Aug 21, 2025 (SPX)
"This milestone signals the conclusion of design and planning, setting us on course for a flight-ready system by Q2 2026," said Matt Zamborsky, Senior Program M...
NASA opens next round in Moon recycling challenge
Aug 13, 2025 (SPX)
This phase features a milestone round, with submissions due January 2026, followed by the announcement of up to 20 finalists in February. These teams will compe...
NASA to unveil last piece of hardware for the Artemis II Orion mission
Aug 12, 2025 (UPI)
NASA has invited media to the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., to see the piece. The rest of the SLS rocket for Artemis II is stacked on mobile...
NASA launches second phase of moon recycling competition
Aug 11, 2025 (UPI)
The space agency's LunaRecycle Challenge is looking for the brightest minds to figure out a way to recycle plastics, foams and metals left behind by ongoing act...
China advances crewed lunar mission with lander landing and takeoff trial
Aug 08, 2025 (SPX)
The spacecraft, called Lanyueeart - meaning embracing the mooneart - is composed of a landing module and a propulsion module. It is purpose-built for ferrying t...
US astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, dead at 97
Aug 08, 2025 (AFP)
The former Navy pilot, who was portrayed by actor Tom Hanks in the 1995 movie "Apollo 13," died in a Chicago suburb on Thursday, the US space agency said in a s...
Astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, dies at 97
Aug 08, 2025 (UPI)
Lovell also flew on three other missions: Gemini 7, Gemini 12 and Apollo 8 in the 1960s, and was the first astronaut to go into space that many times. He died i...
Lunar rover tire collaboration aims for deployment by 2029
Aug 05, 2025 (SPX)
Under the agreement, Bridgestone's soft, elastic tires - engineered with thin metal spokes for both durability and flexibility - will be installed on ispace's p...
NASA administrator seeks plan to place nuclear reactor on moon
Aug 05, 2025 (UPI)
NASA already has plans to put a small nuclear reactor on the moon but this directive would create a timeline despite the agency's heavy budget cut, Politico, Th...
China allocates fresh batch of lunar samples to domestic research institutions
Aug 05, 2025 (SPX)
According to the Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center, 30,881.8 milligrams of lunar samples will be shared with selected researchers. Among the recipi...
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission ends without mapping moon
Aug 04, 2025 (UPI)
The mission ended Friday, NASA said Monday in a news release. On Feb. 26, the satellite was part of the IM-2 mission by Intuitive Machines aboard a SpaceX Falco...
Mapping lunar landscapes begins in Norway's fjords
Aug 01, 2025 (SPX)
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA's Jessica Wittner, and Arnaud Prost, a CNES-affiliated member of ESA's Astronaut Reserve, are engaged in the latest PANGAEA g...
Moonquake hazards raise concern for future long-term lunar missions
Aug 01, 2025 (SPX)
Published in Science Advances, the study was co-authored by Smithsonian Senior Scientist Emeritus Thomas R. Watters and University of Maryland geophysicist Nich...
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