NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! NASA is racing to establish a permanent human presence on the moon as the U.S. looks to beat China’s ambitions on the lunar surface amid intensifying competition in space. The Trump administration’s push for a roughly $20 billion moon base marks a major shift in NASA’s strategy, … Read more
The gumdrop-shaped Orion spacecraft can carry up to four passengers. At 16.5 feet wide, it has a habitable volume of around 330 cubic feet. So the crew members have been training to sleep, eat, exercise, use the bathroom and communicate with ground controllers in very tight quarters. The Orion capsule includes a space toilet (with … Read more
It’s the dawn of a new lunar era for NASA, with the four-person Artemis II crew arriving Friday afternoon at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center after spending two weeks quarantining in Houston. CBS News space contributor Christian Davenport joins “The Takeout” to preview the mission. Source link
The Artemis II astronauts flew to the Kennedy Space Center Friday to prepare for the scheduled April 1 launch that will take them on a nearly 700,000-mile voyage around the moon and back, the first crew to leave Earth orbit since the final Apollo mission a half century ago. Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, Victor … Read more
Future heat shields will feature design changes to fix the issue —specifically, a more permeable layer of outer material — NASA officials said. But for Artemis II, the heat shield remains the same. To avoid risk to the astronauts, mission managers’ strategy is to alter the capsule’s re-entry path. Ordinarily, before it begins its final … Read more
NASA announces plan to build moon base – CBS News Watch CBS News NASA announced its latest initiatives on Tuesday, including a plan to build a moon base. CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood has more. Source link
NASA announced ambitious long-range plans Tuesday to spend $20 billion over the next seven years to build a moon base near the lunar south pole featuring habitats, pressurized rovers and nuclear power systems. The announcement came just over a week before the planned launch of NASA’s Artemis II around-the-moon mission. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman kicked … Read more
NASA’s Artemis II rocket is back on the launch pad after repairs inside the massive Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. Early next month, NASA will try, for a second time, to send a crew of four on a flyby of the moon. Mark Strassmann has more. Source link
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the second time this year, NASA moved its moon rocket from the hangar out toward the pad Friday in hopes of launching four astronauts on a lunar fly-around next month. If the latest repairs work and everything else goes NASA’s way, the Space Launch System could blast off as early … Read more
NASA’s repaired Artemis II moon rocket began a glacial 12-hour trip back to the launch pad early Friday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, setting the stage for a delayed April 1 launch to send four astronauts on a historic nine-day flight around the moon and back. Mounted atop a powerful Apollo-era crawler-transporter, the … Read more