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All necks will be craned toward the heavens next year when NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket blasts the Artemis 2 mission toward the moon. Artemis 2 will launch four astronauts around the moon in September 2025, if all goes according to plan. It will be the first crewed effort beyond Earth orbit since the […]

The first woman slated to launch to the moon has delivered one of the first trees grown from seeds recently flown there. NASA astronaut Christina Koch presented a loblolly pine “Moon Tree” sapling to her home state of North Carolina on Wednesday (April 24). The tree began as one of more than 1,000 seeds that […]

NASA has added another country to its growing list of international partners committed to responsible moon exploration.  On Friday (April 19), Slovenia signed NASA’s Artemis Accords, becoming the 39th country to affirm their cooperation in future space endeavors to the moon and beyond.  “NASA welcomes Slovenia to the Artemis Accords,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said […]

The Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) is one of the first three potential payloads NASA selected for the Artemis 3 mission, which will land humans on the moon in 2026 for the first time in more than 50 years. The compact, autonomous seismometer is designed to withstand the long, cold lunar night and operate during […]

Earlier this year, NASA announced it had delayed until September 2025 the crewed Artemis 2 swingby of the moon, a practice run to prepare for 2026’s Artemis 3 mission, which will land astronauts near the lunar south pole. One reason cited for the 10-month delay was getting to the bottom of reentry heat shield data […]

Another one signs the (moon) dust. Sweden is the newest nation to sign onto NASA’s Artemis Accords for peaceful and responsible exploration. During a signing event in Stockholm on Tuesday (April 16), Swedish Minister for Education Mats Persson penned the agreement alongside U.S. Ambassador Erik D. Ramanathan. “By joining the Artemis Accords, Sweden strengthens its […]

NASA’s next moon spacecraft for humans made one small leap into an altitude chamber for vital testing before it brings astronauts on board. The Orion spacecraft for Artemis 2 is slated to fly around the moon with four astronauts no earlier than September 2025 — but first, engineers with NASA want to make sure it […]

The first non-American to walk on the moon will be a Japanese astronaut, based on a new agreement between the United States and Japan. U.S. President Joe Biden announced the goal during a state visit by Japan’s prime minister, Kishida Fumio, on Wednesday (April 10). “The science and education ties between Japan and the United […]

NASA’s next moon car is starting to take shape. The agency has selected three private teams — led by the companies Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and Venturi Astrolab, respectively — to develop their versions of the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV), the rover that Artemis astronauts will drive around the moon’s southern polar region beginning in 2030. […]

The curtain is about to rise on NASA’s next moon car. The space agency will announce the company, or companies, that it has selected to develop the rover for its Artemis program of lunar exploration during a press conference today (April 3) at 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT). You can watch the event live here […]

It can now be revealed that Japan’s proposal for a future moon rover is “more than meets the eye.” As first announced last June but just now starting to ship, a new scale model of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Lunar Cruiser not only faithfully reproduces the details of the astronaut transport developed in […]