Having lost out in the competition to produce NASA’s initial lunar lander for its Human Landing System (HLS), Blue Origin’s National Team celebrated the award of a contract for a second lander design under the agency’s NextSTEP-2 Appendix P Sustaining Lunar...
NASAs TROPICS 5 and TROPICS 6, having originally been planned to be launched on a completely different rocket (the launch was moved from an Astra Rocket 3 after a launch failure destroyed an earlier TROPICS pair), and then launched from a new location (New Zealand...
NASA astronaut Steve Bowen was joined by UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi for an Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS). After depressurisation of the Quest airlock, the airlock hatch was opened at...
NASA has announced the names of the astronauts who will take part in the Artemis II “around the Moon” mission in 2024. They are: NASA astronauts Christina Hammock Koch, Reid Wiseman (Commander) and Victor Glover, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. The...
Firefly Aerospace has been awarded a second CLPS transportation order to the Moon, this time for the Blue Ghost 2 lander mission which NASA has payloads on under a US$112 million contract made under the NASA CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) programme. Blue...
A new style, for a new space era – that’s the message NASA wants to send with the unveiling of brand new spacesuits for the return to the Moon, designed by Axion Space. The Artemis III spacesuit prototype, the AxEMU, was unveiled during a “Moon 2 Mars” festival hosted...
