Tag: Artemis
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NASA to fly CubeSat pathfinder for Gateway in unique lunar orbit
A highly elliptical near rectilinear halo orbit around the Moon takes advantage of a precise balance point in the gravities of Earth and the Moon and creates a stability that is ideal for long-term missions like Gateway. Credit: Advanced Space As soon as next year, NASA plans to launch a CubeSat the size of a…
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NASA taps Lockheed Martin to build six more Orion crew capsules
Artist’s illustration of an Orion spacecraft at the moon. Credit: Lockheed Martin NASA announced Monday it will order at least six reusable Orion crew capsules from Lockheed Martin for $4.6 billion to fly astronauts to the vicinity of the moon in the 2020s, and the agency said it plans to purchase hardware for up to…
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NASA’s Orion spacecraft program gets a multibillion-dollar vote of support
The Orion crew capsule meant for NASA’s uncrewed Artemis 1 mission around the moon and back is being prepared for its flight. (NASA Photo / Radislav Sinyak) NASA says it’s ordering three more Orion spacecraft for missions to the moon, at a cost of $2.7 billion — and plans to order as many as nine…
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NASA still looking for new human spaceflight chief
Ken Bowersox, acting head of NASA’s human exploration and operations mission directorate, listens during a hearing Wednesday before the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani NASA hopes to have a new leader for the agency’s human spaceflight directorate by the end of the year to replace…
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SLS launch platform returns to pad 39B
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Sept. 11 with pad arrival. The Space Launch System’s mobile tower emerged from the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday morning to begin the 4.2-mile trip back to pad 39B. Credit: Spaceflight Now The towering mobile platform for NASA’s Space Launch System emerged from the Vehicle Assembly Building at…
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Spaceport survey finds little damage from Hurricane Dorian
The Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is pictured during an aerial survey Thursday after Hurricane Dorian passed off Florida’s east coast. Credit: NASA/Cory Huston Launch facilities at Cape Canaveral were spared any significant damage as Hurricane Dorian churned northward off Florida’s east coast earlier this week, and employees at the spaceport resumed…
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Boeing completes first NASA SLS engine section, getting ready for final Core Stage mate
Officials from NASA along with prime contractor Boeing formally signed off on the first assembly of the most complicated element of the civilian space agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. After a review of data from two months of functional testing at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans, the engine section element of…
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National Space Council meeting highlights moon and Mars plan – plus nuclear power
Vice President Mike Pence delivers opening remarks during the sixth meeting of the National Space Council at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. The space shuttle Discovery towers over him. (NASA Photo / Aubrey Gemignani) The latest meeting of the National Space Council provided a forum to build…
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NASA directs Alabama space center to manage lunar lander program
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani Despite protests from Texas lawmakers, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will manage the agency’s plans to build a lunar landing system that will carry the next man and the first woman to the surface of the moon in…
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NASA puts Alabama center in charge of moon lander program, drawing Texans’ ire
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is dwarfed by a 149-foot-tall liquid hydrogen structural test article for the heavy-lift Space Launch System as he announces Marshall Space Flight Center’s leadership role in developing the human landing system for Artemis moon missions. (NASA Photo) NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced today that Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama will…