NASA issues its fast-track plan to get two commercial lunar landers for 2024-2025 After two preliminary rounds, NASA today published its final call for industry proposals to have the first two landers capable… Read More
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
India loses contact with Chandrayaan 2’s lander at climax of historic moon mission India’s Mission Control lost contact with the lander for its Chandrayaan 2 mission today, just as it was about to… Read More
Open Lunar Foundation comes out in the open with its plan to build a moon village After spending five years in semi-stealth mode, a San Francisco venture called the Open Lunar Foundation is talking about its… 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
ULA’s Vulcan rocket selected for launches of moon lander and mini-shuttle in 2021 United Launch Alliance’s next-generation Vulcan rocket – and Blue Origin’s next-generation BE-4 rocket engine – have been chosen 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
Blue Origin gets in on three partnerships with NASA to boost missions to the moon Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space venture, Blue Origin, has been selected to participate in three partnerships with NASA to advance… 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
India sends Chandrayaan 2 probe toward the moon’s south pole for historic landing India began a slow but steady space odyssey to the moon’s south polar region today with the launch of its… Read More
Blue Origin racks up a full six minutes of firing time on BE-7 moon lander engine RENTON, Wash. — Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says it has test-fired its BE-7 rocket engine for… Read More
NASA’s target for the first launch of its SLS moon rocket shifts from 2020 to 2021 NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told lawmakers today that the first launch of the heavy-lift Space Launch System was “definitely achievable… Read More
Government officials are reaching out to commercial ventures for space race revival RENTON, Wash. — Fifty years after the landmark Apollo 11 mission blasted off for the climax of the U.S.-Soviet space… Read More
The moon in 2069: Top space scientists share their visions for lunar lifestyles LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Fifty years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 11 mission transformed the idea of putting people on the… Read More
Rover teams practice for spelunking on the moon and Mars in California lava tubes BELLEVUE, Wash. — Underground lava tubes are great places to set up bases on the moon, or look for life… Read More
Check out Buzz Aldrin’s Apollo 11 flight manual before its multimillion-dollar sale The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Timeline Book that sat between Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin for the moon landing 50… Read More
Jeff Bezos explains how going to the moon is harder now than it was for JFK in 1962 Back in 1962, President John F. Kennedy said he chose to have Americans go to the moon not because it… Read More
Watchdogs issue warning about NASA’s SLS moon rocket plan, but Boeing CEO stays the course The federal government’s watchdog agency says getting NASA’s heavy-lift Space Launch System rocket off the ground is likely to take… Read More
Satellite consultant outlines a way-out plan to turn space junk into lunar treasure What can be done with the thousands of dead satellites orbiting Earth? Some commercial ventures are hatching plans to get… Read More
With a single tweet, President Trump stirs tumult over NASA’s plans to go to the moon President Donald Trump put the space community on edge today with a tweet that downplayed NASA’s plans to send astronauts… Read More
NASA picks first commercial ventures to deliver scientific payloads to the moon Update for 6 p.m. PT July 31: One of the commercial ventures selected to deliver science experiments to the moon’s… 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
NASA taps Blue Origin and 10 other companies to work on moon lander studies and prototypes It’s almost as if Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos knew what was coming: His Blue Origin space venture is among 11… Read More
NASA’s lunar orbiter spots the smoking hole left behind by Israel’s moon lander The Israeli-built Beresheet moon lander made history when it went into lunar orbit and descended to the surface — and… 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
Amid the talk about moon missions, Mars fans push for a share of the space spotlight As NASA shifts the focus of its space exploration effort to the moon, the advocates of Mars exploration and settlement… Read More
Jeff Bezos unveils Blue Moon lunar lander and shares updated vision for Blue Origin WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos today laid out the architecture for missions to the moon aimed at supporting… Read More
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… Read More
