Earlier this year, NASA announced it had postponed the manned Artemis 2 swing of the moon until September 2025, a practice run in preparation for the 2026 Artemis 3 mission, which will land astronauts near the moon’s south pole. One of the reasons given for the ten-month delay was to understand the heat shield data … Read more
A nervous one Jack Hathaway had to overcome one final obstacle before becoming a NASA astronaut candidate: finding the time to hear the news. Hathaway waited in 2021 for a call from NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, then head of the astronaut agency, to find out if he could join the agency. But Hathaway was on … Read more
In February, Uruguay became the 36th country to sign the Artemis Accords, a set of non-binding principles to drive responsible action on the moon. The agreements were reached and formulated in 2020 by NASA, in coordination with the US Department of State. Since that time, there has been a steady pace of countries signing the … Read more
The full moon hangs in view with the Orion, in the shell of the payload on top of the SLS rocket. Specialists are now gathering potential photography assignments for NASA’s manned lunar flight Artemis 2, expected to take place in September 2025. Hidden in them Orion spacecraftthey will be hurled to the moon by NASA … Read more
Privately made spacesuits for NASA lunar astronauts could reach a major design milestone this year. Officials from Axiom Space, the company that makes spacesuits for the Artemis program, said Monday (Jan. 22) that the garments may will soon arrive at a critical design assessment. In fact, that review could take place as early as June. … Read more
What is going on In the four-year period between 1969 and 1972, twelve American astronauts walked on the moon. Not a single human being, from any country, has repeated this feat in the more than fifty years that have followed. The United States hopes to break this trend within the coming years through NASA’s new … Read more
NASA’s first crewed Artemis mission, a flight to ship four astronauts on a trip around the moon and back, will be postponed for almost a year, from the end of 2024 until at least September 2025, NASA announced on Tuesday. Likewise, the first astronaut landing on the moon will be pushed back from late 2025 … Read more
The year 2023 proved to be a big year for space missions, with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returning a sample of an asteroid and India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission exploring the moon’s south pole, and 2024 will be another exciting year for space exploration. Several new missions under NASA’s Artemis plan and the Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative … Read more