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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced today in a press conference that the next US crewed Moon landing mission has been pushed back to 2025. The setback is due to COVID-19, lawsuits, and budget shortfalls, but the agency remains committed to a plan … Continue reading NASA pushes back plans for crewed lunar landing to 2025
After fears that it might require disassembly, Lockheed Martin has completed work on the Artemis I Orion spacecraft and has formally transferred possession to NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) team at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Continue … Continue reading NASA takes delivery of Orion Artemis I spacecraft
NASA and ESA have formally entered into a partnership agreement for building NASA’s Artemis Gateway deep space outpost. The agreement signed on Tuesday is part of the US effort to attract international partners for the lunar exploration project.Continu… Continue reading NASA and ESA finalize agreement to build Gateway deep space outpost
NASA has put a key component of its Orion deep-space probe through its paces, conducting a static firing of the spacecraft’s service module’s main engine at the space agency’s White Sands Test Facility near Las Cruces in New Mexico. The purpo… Continue reading NASA test fires Orion service module engine
Lockheed Martin says that it has completed the final assembly phase of the first full Orion spacecraft. At a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, US Vice President Mike Pence made the public announcement in fro… Continue reading Construction of Orion spacecraft for Artemis-1 flight completed