Tag: Human Landing System
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Trump administration requests funding boost for NASA’s Artemis moon program
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s illustration of astronauts on the moon. Credit: NASA The Trump administration is requesting $25.2 billion for NASA in fiscal 2021, a 12 percent increase that includes $3.3 billion to kickstart development of a human-rated lander for the Artemis moon program. Nearly half of the budget request, $12.3…
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Bipartisan House bill spurns 2024 moon landing goal, favoring focus on Mars
Rep. Kendra Horn (D-Oklahoma), chair of the space and aeronautics subcommittee of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani A NASA authorization bill released by the House Science Committee Friday proposes major changes to the direction of the agency’s human spaceflight programs, with a goal to land crews on the moon…
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NASA expected to detail costs for fast-track moon landing program next month
Jim Morhard testifies before a Senate committee in 2018 during his confirmation hearing to begin NASA’s deputy administrator. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA will release a budget profile with a cost estimate for the agency’s Artemis moon landing program in February in conjunction with the White House’s fiscal year 2021 budget request, according to NASA’s deputy…
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Dynetics, Sierra Nevada partnering on human-rated lunar lander proposal
Artist’s concept of the Dynetics proposal for a Human Landing System. Credit: Dynetics Dynetics, an Alabama-based company with broad experience as a supplier of aerospace components and systems, is seeking a major role in NASA’s Artemis moon program with a proposal for a human-rated lunar lander developed in partnership with Sierra Nevada Corp. and other…
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Boeing proposes SLS-launched lunar lander
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Nov. 10 to correct references to ascent and descent stage functions. Artist’s concept of Boeing’s lunar lander taking off from the moon. Credit: Boeing Boeing is touting a lunar lander concept that the company claims could launch in one piece on an upgraded version of NASA’s Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket — which…
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Lawmakers question NASA’s plan for a 2024 moon landing
José Serrano, D-New York, speaks during a hearing Wednesday before the House Appropriations Committee’s subcommittee on commerce, justice, science and related agencies. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Amid questions from lawmakers about the cost of the Trump administration’s proposal to accelerate a human return to the moon’s surface to 2024, the chairman of the House subcommittee responsible…
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NASA opens competition to build human-rated lunar landers
Artist’s illustration of a multi-stage human-rated lunar lander. Credit: NASA Companies have until Nov. 1 to submit proposals to NASA for a human-rated lander that could be ready in time to carry astronauts to the moon’s surface by the end of 2024, and the agency is leaving open the option for contractors to develop a…
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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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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…