Future astronauts on the moon will need to have water, and now NASA has designed a new CubeSat spacecraft to search for ice in lunar craters using laser beams. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/lunar-flashlight-moon-ice-infrared-laser-beams…
Tag: artemis
Trump Administration Drafting ‘Artemis Accords’ Pact For Moon Mining
The Trump administration is drafting a legal blueprint for mining on the moon under a new U.S.-sponsored international agreement called the Artemis Accords, Reuters reported Wednesday. From the report: The agreement would be the latest effort to cultivate allies around NASA’s plan to put humans and space stations on the moon within the next decade, and comes as the civilian space…
NASA Names Companies To Develop Human Landers For Artemis Moon Missions
New submitter penandpaper shares an excerpt from a NASA press release: NASA has selected three U.S. companies to design and develop human landing systems (HLS) for the agency’s Artemis program, one of which will land the first woman and next man on the surface of the Moon by 2024. NASA is on track for sustainable human exploration of the Moon for…
NASA has selected three lunar landers to bring humans to the moon
NASA has awarded $967 million to three space flight companies – Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX – to build lunar landers that will be part of the Artemis programme to send humans to the moon by 2024 Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242413-nasa-has-selected-three-lunar-landers-to-bring-humans-to-the-moon/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Trump Signs Executive Order To Support Moon Mining, Tap Asteroid Resources
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Space.com: President Donald Trump signed an executive order today (April 6) establishing U.S. policy on the exploitation of off-Earth resources. That policy stresses that the current regulatory regime — notably, the 1967 Outer Space Treaty — allows the use of such resources. This view has long held sway in U.S. government circles. For example,…
NASA Picks SpaceX To Fly Cargo To Moon-Orbiting Gateway Space Station
NASA has awarded SpaceX with a contract to supply Gateway, the moon-orbiting space station that the agency aims to start building in 2022, agency officials announced Friday. Space.com reports: Gateway is a key part of NASA’s Artemis exploration program, which seeks to establish a sustainable, long-term human presence on and around the moon by the late 2020s. The small space station…
NASA suspends work on Moon rocket due to virus
NASA said it has suspended work on building and testing the rocket and capsule for its Artemis manned mission to the Moon due to the rising number of coronavirus cases in the community. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-03-nasa-moon-rocket-due-virus.html…
Comparing mountains on the moon to the Earth’s peaks
NASA’s Artemis Program is planning to land astronauts on the moon’s south pole. To prepare for this, NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) is creating the Lunar South Pole Atlas (LSPA). As part of that atlas, NASA is mapping the topography of the region, including the mountains. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-03-mountains-moon-earth-peaks.html…
Want to be an astronaut? Apply now!
For the first time in more than 4 years, NASA is now accepting applications for future astronauts. Aspiring moon to Mars explorers have until March 31 to apply. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/nasa-astronaut-apply-march2020…
NASA is Looking for New Astronauts
“With a renewed interest in sending humans back to the Moon and then eventually to Mars, NASA needs all the able-bodied space explorers it can get…” writes BGR. “The requirements are, well, pretty strict, but what else would you expect from a group that sends humans into space?” Quoting NASA.gov:
Since the 1960s, NASA has selected 350 people to train as astronaut…