Among all the challenges of voyaging to and successfully landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil and rock samples cannot be underestimated.
With 10 instruments and technology tests, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload ...
US company Firefly Aerospace said Tuesday it is aiming to launch a lander to the moon next week under an experimental NASA ...
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In Europe, the total funding was €11.9 billion, showing a modest 1% rise in its share of global space investment. According to the European Space Agency, defence spending on space exceeded civil ...
Howl or no howl, the wolf's seasonal peak of activity earned wolves a place in Dakota/Lakota lunar lore, where the January full Moon is (according to the Farmer's Almanac) known as "The Time When ...
The moon is about 240,000 miles away from Earth. That's enough space to fit 30 Earths in between. Sometimes, it snuggles a little closer, and sometimes it's a little farther away. When you look up ...
Two NASA astronauts who flew up to the International Space Station in a Boeing Starliner capsule for a round trip that was supposed to last just over a week will be stuck in space for closer to a ...
The Isaacman nomination has prompted speculation in some quarters that NASA's Artemis moon program, relying on the agency's costly Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule, could face ...
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in the latest milestone in the country’s ambitious space program. Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong, crew members of the Shenzhou-19 spaceflight, wrapped the nine-hour extravehicular activity ...
Under this program, the space agency sends its payloads to the Moon via private robotic missions to prepare for the next human Moon landing in 2027. Firefly has named its first CLPS mission Ghost ...