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NASA’s next Moon landing may have been put back a year, but that hasn’t stopped Axiom from showing off the practical version of its Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU). Better known as a space suit, it will protect next-gen Moonwalkers.Continue … Continue reading Axiom’s next-gen Moon suit subjected to bend and squat tests
NASA announced today that its next two crewed Artemis missions to the Moon have been set back at least a year. The Artemis II lunar orbiter mission will now launch in September 2025 and the Artemis III lander mission is set for September 2026.Continue … Continue reading NASA delays next two Artemis missions by a year
America’s plan to send its first lander to the Moon since 1972 has ended prematurely after the private owner and operator of the robotic Peregrine spacecraft announced that a massive propellant leak has made a lunar landing impossible.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading US Peregrine lunar landing mission scrubbed due to propellant leak
For those with an interest in the history of spaceflight, January 8th promised to be a pretty exciting day. Those who tuned into the early morning live stream were looking …read more Continue reading Vulcan Nails First Flight, but Peregrine Falls Short
necro81 writes: ULA’s Vulcan rocket, many years in development, had a successful first launch this morning from Cape Canaveral. The expendable rocket, which uses two methane-fueled BE-4 engines from Blue Origin in its first stage, is the successor to t… Continue reading Moon Lander Problem Threatens Mission After Vulcan Rocket Makes Successful Debut
America’s privately owned and operated Peregrine lunar landing mission may be in peril due to a malfunction. An anomaly in the lander’s propulsion system discovered shortly after this morning’s launch may require the planned February landing to be scru… Continue reading America’s Peregrine lunar lander mission in jeopardy from fuel loss
The first US Moon landing mission in 52 years is on its way after Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One (PM1) lifted off this morning from Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida atop a ULA Vulcan rocket at 2:18 am EST.Continue … Continue reading Peregrine launch sees US on way to the Moon after five decades
When the first US Moon landing mission since Apollo lifts off tomorrow, it will be launched into space by a new generation of rockets called Vulcan, which are powered by two methane engines and the longest single-segment solid rocket booster ever built… Continue reading US Moon mission to mark maiden flight of new Vulcan rocket
The BBC checks in on “the pioneers of space exploration — the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s.”
Ken Mattingly and Frank Borman died within a few days of each other late last year. Now on… Continue reading Whatever Happened to the Surviving Apollo Astronauts?
The White House has convened a last-minute meeting to discuss a private lunar mission, Peregrine Mission One, after the Navajo Nation requested a delay due to cultural concerns over the transport of human ashes for burial on the moon. “The moon holds a… Continue reading Navajo Nation Objects To Landing Human Remains On Moon, Prompting Last-Minute White House Meeting