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IM-2 is an upcoming lunar mission that will be carried in late February 2025 by Intuitive Machines for NASA's CLPS program, using a Nova-C lunar lander. [3] [4] The company named this lander Athena. [5] The mission aims to uncover the presence and amount of lunar water ice using PRIME-1, which consists of a
NASA Discovery Program mission to Venus. 2031 (TBD) [42] Commercial launch vehicle Cape Canaveral or Kennedy: TBA: Sample Retrieval Lander: NASA / ESA: TMI to Martian surface: Mars sample-return Mars Ascent Vehicle: NASA: Martian surface to TMI: Mars sample-return Lander component of the NASA–ESA Mars sample-return mission. It will carry NASA ...
In the early years, the operations control center of the Deep Space Network did not have a permanent facility. It was a makeshift setup with numerous desks and phones installed in a large room near the computers used to calculate orbits. In July 1961, NASA started the construction of the permanent facility, Space Flight Operations Facility (SFOF).
Kennedy Space Center (KSC), located west of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, is one of the best known NASA facilities. Named the Launch Operations Center at its creation on July 1, 1962, it was renamed in honor of the late U.S. president on November 29, 1963, [ 35 ] [ 36 ] and has been the launch site for every United States human ...
A history of the Johnson Space Center (PDF format) 1993; JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight September 2001 Archived November 29, 2021, at the Wayback Machine; Roundup, official newsletter Roundup archive 1961-2001 Roundup archive 2003-present; NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project – Interview with Thomas W. 'Tommy' Holloway
NASA released on Friday a pair of images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope showing two galaxies - one nicknamed the Penguin and the other the Egg - in the process of merging in sort of a ...
The Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where the Planetary Missions Program Office is located. The Planetary Missions Program Office was established in late 2014 as part of a series of changes implemented by NASA after the passage of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015, which allocated US$1.438 billion to planetary missions, and the ...
7-24 November 2017. The first of the series of joint Russian-US SIRIUS experiments in which NASA's Human Research Program and IBMP conducted research to identify preventive measures and technologies to protect the health of astronauts during spaceflight, it lasted 17 days. The 6 person crew conducted over 60 experiments, "captured" satellites ...