Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin mimics the moon’s gravity for NASA experiments during spaceflight
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity without straying too far from home.
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NASA’s powerful moon mining robot could dig 10,000 kg of soil in a single lunar day
Its key task would be to efficiently mine and transport lunar regolith – the loose rocky material covering the Moon's surface ...
Why it’s good for NASA that an asteroid carved out 2 grand canyons on the moon
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
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Trump’s Mars declaration raises questions about NASA’s moon mission
Trump’s pledge to go to Mars without mentioning the moon has caused some head-scratching and even consternation in the media.
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Moon missions in 2025: Five missions will help astronauts return to the moon
Unlike the Apollo flights, these aren’t just NASA missions that are getting us back to the moon. Get comfortable with the acronym CLPS, which stands for Commercial Lunar Payload Services.
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A year in isolation: 366-day mock moon mission wraps up in Russia
Related: NASA's 1st year-long mock Mars mission wraps ... recreated key stages of a crewed lunar mission: transit to the moon, docking with an orbital station, surface operations and the return ...
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NASA spacecraft flew by distant world. It saw unprecedented volcanism.
Jupiter's volcanic moon Io as captured by the Juno spacecraft on Oct. 15, 2023. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Image processing by Ted Stryk On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft ...
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Despite DEI demise, NASA still touts goal to land 1st woman, 1st person of color on moon
“With NASA’s Artemis campaign, we are exploring the moon for scientific discovery, technology advancement, and to learn how to live and work on another world as we prepare for human missions ...
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NASA photographs the rare occurrence of the moon crossing the face of the Earth from a million miles away
The series of test images showed the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. The images were captured using NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera ...
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Meet Luna: Park Elementary becomes one of 50 schools to plant NASA “Moon Tree”
She’s been involving her students with NASA projects ever since, so when the opportunity to apply to receive an Artemis Mission Moon Tree came, it was only natural for Westad to submit Park Elementary ...
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NASA: Near-Earth Asteroid Likely Came from the Moon
This object appears to be a piece of the Moon, which was broken off in a cataclysmic impact. Scientists first detected 2024 PT5 in August 2024 with the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last ...