After years of delays and several false starts, the wait is finally over: NASA’s massive Space Launch System rocket and the Orion capsule lifted off at 1:48 am Eastern time, heading for a historic lunar flyby. Crowds of onlookers watched at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the thunder of a NASA rocket could […]
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By Wanyuan Song and Jana TauschinskiBBC News Image source, BBC; Getty Image; Nasa Three Chinese astronauts have begun a six-month mission, to work on the country’s new space station. It is China’s latest step towards making itself a leading space power for the decades ahead. What is the Tiangong space station? Last year, China put
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A federal judge on Thursday rejected Jeff Bezos’ latest legal attempt to overturn NASA’s multibillion-dollar moon lander contract with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The decision ended a monthslong battle between the space companies of two of the world’s richest men that posed a significant obstacle to NASA’s plans for returning humans to the moon for the
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NASA announced today that it was seeking proposals from private companies interested in collecting samples from the moon and making them available for purchase by the agency. The news: As part of the new initiative, one or more companies will launch a mission to the moon and collect between 50 and 500 grams of lunar
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Moon dirt could be valuable to spacefaring private companies. Nic Henry/CNET NASA wants to buy moon “dirt,” or rocks, from private companies, the space agency said in a blog post Thursday. The companies can collect rocks from any location on the lunar surface, with data that identifies the location, send images to NASA, and “conduct an
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The announcement is yet another step in NASA’s Artemis project to set up a permanent presence on and around the moon and eventually go to Mars, where astronauts would need to be able to use the resources there. Speaking during a forum put on by the Secure World Foundation, a think tank, he said the
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NASA’s DART spacecraft will blast off to asteroid Didymos to crash into its moon. NASA It sounds like a Hollywood pitch, but it’s real. NASA will send a spacecraft to crash into an asteroid’s moon. That moon now has a name: Dimorphos, which means “having two forms.” Before smash and after smash. NASA’s Double Asteroid
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NASA awarded the contract, worth nearly $200 million, to Astrobotic, a Pittsburgh-based company, as part of a program to hire private-sector companies to deliver cargo and science experiments to the lunar surface. Unlike the Apollo missions, where astronauts visited the moon and then returned home, NASA is now working toward creating a permanent presence there
