Tag: Gateway
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NASA taps Northrop Grumman in sole-source agreement to build Gateway habitat
Artist’s illustration of the Gateway in orbit around the moon, with the Power and Propulsion Element, a habitation module, and a visiting cargo resupply craft and Orion crew capsule. Credit: NASA Racing against the clock to meet the Trump administration’s 2024 deadline to land astronauts on the moon, NASA plans to select Northrop Grumman to…
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NASA shakes up moon program management
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION File photo of Bill Gerstenmaier, the former head of NASA’s human spaceflight division. Credit: NASA/Paul E. Alers In a major shakeup at NASA Headquarters, agency Administrator Jim Bridenstine said Wednesday that Bill Gerstenmaier, the widely respected director of human spaceflight, has been replaced in the midst of an…
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The busy life of the Space Station Robots
The Space Station’s Canadian robotic arms have enjoyed another busy month, starting with the release of a SpaceX Dragon and ending with the deployment of a microsat. The Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM) – best known as Dextre – is also looking forward to NASA’s Robotic Refueling Mission 3 (RRM3), while it was recently announced that the…
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NASA determining best course for commercial Lunar Gateway resupply
Following a call late last year for companies to submit ideas on how NASA can best resupply its upcoming Lunar Gateway outpost, the U.S. federal space agency has taken its initiative one step further, releasing the draft resupply Request For Proposals it developed from the feedback received. The Gateway Logistics Services draft document was released…
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NASA chooses Maxar to build keystone module for lunar Gateway station
Artist’s illustration of the Gateway’s Power and Propulsion Element. Credit: Maxar NASA has selected Maxar Technologies for a $375 million contract to design, build and launch the core element of a mini-space station in orbit around the moon that will double as a deep space research outpost and a staging point for future human expeditions…
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NASA aims for quick start to 2024 Moon landing via newly named Artemis Program
A new amendment to the White House’s Fiscal Year 2020 budget request increases NASA’s federal budget by $1.6 Billion. The additional funding is allocated for multiple elements of the lunar mission architecture in order to pursue the goal of returning crew to the lunar surface by 2024, a program that has now been named Artemis,…
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Trump adds $1.6 billion to NASA budget request to kick start ‘Artemis’ moon mission
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s illustration of a lunar lander. Credit: NASA The Trump administration is adding an additional $1.6 billion to NASA’s $21 billion 2020 budget request to kick start plans to return American astronauts to the moon in 2024, four years earlier than previously planned, NASA announced Monday. In a…
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Northrop Grumman, NASA test Cygnus-derived lunar gateway habitat
Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems (NGIS) and NASA have completed a series of tests on a full-scale mockup of NGIS’s proposed Deep Space Gateway habitat modules. The test, conducted at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, comes as part of Northrop Grumman’s participation in the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 (NextSTEP-2) program. While the…
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NASA begins outlining roadmap for 2024 moon landing
Bill Gerstenmaier, head of NASA’s human spaceflight programs, speaks April 8 during a meeting at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani A senior NASA official said Tuesday that the Space Launch System, a huge heavy-lift rocket years behind schedule, could launch astronauts on a moon landing mission in 2024 on just its…
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NASA updates Lunar Gateway plans
NASA management updated the agency’s human exploration plans for the 2020s to the NASA Advisory Council’s (NAC) Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Committee last month at the Ames Research Center in California. The focus of the evolving plans for the next decade is launch, assembly, and operations of a human-tended space station in high lunar…