Tag: Moon
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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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Amid the talk about moon missions, Mars fans push for a share of the space spotlight
An artist’s conception depicts a crewed mission to Mars. (NASA / JPL-Caltech Illustration / 2004) As NASA shifts the focus of its space exploration effort to the moon, the advocates of Mars exploration and settlement have a message for future lunar explorers: Don’t get too comfortable. “I do think the moon should be included in…
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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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White House seeks $1.6B more as ‘down payment’ for NASA’s newly named Artemis moon program
An artist’s conception shows astronauts exploring the moon after landing. (NASA Illustratiion) The White House is asking Congress for $1.6 billion more than the $21 billion it previously requested for NASA’s budget, to fund what’s now known as the Artemis program to put American astronauts on the moon by 2024. “This initial investment, I want…
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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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Jeff Bezos unveils Blue Moon lunar lander and shares updated vision for Blue Origin
Jeff Bezos shows off a mockup of the Blue Moon lunar lander. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos today laid out the architecture for missions to the moon aimed at supporting NASA’s goal of landing astronauts on the lunar surface by 2024. The game plan for Bezos’ space venture,…
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Jeff Bezos unveils ‘Blue Moon’ lander
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, reveals the “Blue Moon” moon lander during an event Thursday in Washington, D.C. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, discussed his vision for spaceflight and lunar exploration Thursday in Washington, revealing new details about a privately-developed lunar lander he said will…
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SpaceX’s Elon Musk shows off a shiny Starship in landscapes of moon and Mars
New renderings of SpaceX’s next-generation Starship rocket, shared by CEO Elon Musk on Twitter early today, show the shiny spaceship sitting on bare ground on the moon and Mars. The artwork is similar to less shiny renderings that came out a couple of years ago when Musk laid out the architecture for the Starship launch…
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Blue Origin tweets picture from Antarctic expedition, hinting at moon mission
Is Jeff Bezos planning to send a lander to the moon’s south pole? It’s possible to leap to that conclusion, based on an enigmatic tweet from Blue Origin, the Amazon CEO’s private space venture. The tweet consists of a photograph taken during British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s famously difficult Antarctic expedition, showing the ship Endurance stuck…
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Errant command doomed Israeli moon lander, officials vow to try again
A camera aboard the Israeli Beresheet lunar lander captured this picture of the moon from an altitude of 15 kilometers, or about 49,000 feet. Credit: SpaceIL A command uplinked by mission control to resolve an error in the guidance system on the Israeli Beresheet moon lander inadvertently triggered a chain reaction that led to the…