Swiss Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin, right, shakes hands with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, after signing the Artemis Accords, Monday, April 15, 2024, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Switzerland is the 37th country to sign
[12 Apr 2024] Japanese astronauts to land on moon as part of new NASA partnership
Japan’s Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Masahito Moriyama, (left) JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, right, look at a model of the rover that Japan will provide in exchange for landing two Japanese astronauts
[26 Mar 2024] Boeing, NASA target May 1 for first crewed flight of Starliner to the space station
NASA astronauts Suni Williams (left) and Butch Wilmore (right) pose in front of a graphic of the mission patch for the Starliner Crew Flight Test. Image: Will Robinson-Smith/Spaceflight Now NASA is five weeks away from putting astronauts aboard a new
[13 Mar 2024] Zero-boil-off tank experiments to enable long-duration space exploration
The Gateway space station—humanity’s first space station around the Moon—will be capable of being refueled in space. Credit: NASA Do we have enough fuel to get to our destination? This is probably one of the first questions that comes to
[09 Mar 2024] NASA, Boeing delay Starliner capsule’s 1st astronaut launch to early May
The Boeing Starliner capsule that will fly the company’s Crew Flight Test mission to the International Space Station is shown at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in April 2023. (Image credit: Boeing/John Grant) The long-delayed first crewed mission of
[29 Feb 2024] NASA, SpaceX Test Starship Lunar Lander Docking System
SpaceX and NASA recently performed full-scale qualification testing of the docking system that will connect SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System (HLS) with Orion and later Gateway in lunar orbit during future crewed Artemis missions. Based on the flight-proven Dragon 2
[09 Feb 2024] SpaceX launches NASA’s PACE satellite to study Earth’s oceans, air and climate
‘PACE is going to show us the biology of the oceans at a scale that we’ve never been able to see before.’ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/JwpbyOuq NASA’s newest Earth-observing satellite has made it off the chopping block all the way to orbit. The
[02 Feb 2024] For the first time NASA has asked industry about private missions to Mars
“I’m curious to see if this request brings many new players to the table.” ERIC BERGER – 2/1/2024, 5:50 AM NASA is interested in whether private companies have the right stuff for Mars. NASA is starting to take its first