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Further updates may come from the company’s X account or a news conference scheduled for 4 p.m. EST. “Athena is on the surface of the moon,” Intuitive Machines’ Josh Marshall said during ...
Atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the Athena lander got off the ground Wednesday, Feb. 26 from the Kennedy Space Center on the historic launch pad 39A – the site of NASA's Apollo moon mission launches.
The full moon is totally within Earth's shadow and glows with a dim orange color during a total lunar eclipse photographed early on the morning of Jan. 21, 2019.
The moon holds resources like rare earth elements, water ice, and helium-3. But astronomists say large-scale lunar mining could be bad news for scientific research.
[137] [138] The last attempt to define acceptable detailed rules for exploitation, ended in June 2018, after S. Neil Hosenball, who was the NASA General Counsel and chief US negotiator for the Moon Treaty, decided that negotiation of the mining rules in the Moon Treaty should be delayed until the feasibility of exploitation of lunar resources ...
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite, orbiting at an average distance of 384 399 km (238,854 mi; about 30 times Earth's diameter). It faces Earth always with the same side. This is a result of Earth's gravitational pull having synchronized the Moon's rotation period with its orbital period (lunar month) of 29.5 Earth days.
On March 26, 2019, Vice President Mike Pence announced that NASA's Moon landing goal would be accelerated by four years with a planned landing in 2024. [29] On May 16, 2019, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced that the new program would be named Artemis, after the goddess of the Moon in Greek mythology who is the twin sister of Apollo.
NASA responded to news that Boeing aims to lay off up to 400 workers from its Space Launch System program. The SLS rocket plays a key role in the Artemis moon program, the agency said..