NASA awards $10M to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin for hydrogen-oxygen storage tech Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is on the top of the funding list for a newly announced… Read More
NASA’s Orion spacecraft program gets a multibillion-dollar vote of support NASA says it’s ordering three more Orion spacecraft for missions to the moon, at a cost of $2.7 billion —… Read More
National Space Council meeting highlights moon and Mars plan – plus nuclear power The latest meeting of the National Space Council provided a forum to build support for NASA’s twin-focus plan to send… Read More
NASA puts Alabama center in charge of moon lander program, drawing Texans’ ire NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced today that Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama will take the lead role in developing… Read More
First Mode celebrates first steps in space exploration – and looks ahead to the moon One year after engineers from the Planetary Resources asteroid mining company peeled off to form their own employee-owned startup, known… Read More
NASA says Maxar will build the first big piece for Gateway station in lunar orbit NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine today announced that the first major component for a future mini-space station in lunar orbit will… Read More
White House proposal to tap Pell Grant fund casts a pall over NASA’s moon plans Will NASA’s plan to land astronauts on the moon by 2024 fly with Congress? The Artemis program’s implications are still… Read More
White House seeks $1.6B more as ‘down payment’ for NASA’s newly named Artemis moon program The White House is asking Congress for $1.6 billion more than the $21 billion it previously requested for NASA’s budget,… Read More
Science fiction authors Andy Weir and Neal Stephenson look at life after ‘The Martian’ What could be better than hearing a science fiction writer talk about how to create whole new worlds? How about… Read More
5 revelations about the future moon from ‘Artemis,’ the next book by ‘Martian’ author Andy Weir The writer who made such a splash with “The Martian,” Andy Weir, is sharing the first chapter from “Artemis,” a… Read More
‘The Martian’ author’s next book, ‘Artemis,’ will be ‘adrenaline-charged crime caper’ set on moon Real life space racers may be setting their sights on putting a human on Mars, but author Andy Weir has been… Read More
