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On 26 March 2019, Vice President Mike Pence announced that NASA's Moon landing goal would be accelerated by four years with a planned landing in 2024. [26] On 16 May 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.
The Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility (LSLF) is a repository and laboratory facility at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, opened in 1979 to house geologic samples returned from the Moon by the Apollo program missions to the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972.
NASA's LCROSS mission culminated with two lunar impacts at 11:31 and 11:36 UTC on October 9. The goal of the impact was the search for water in the Cabeus crater near the Moon's south pole, [46] and preliminary results indicated the presence of both water and hydroxyl, an ion related to water. [47] [48]
Nasa has successfully launched its Artemis moon mission, after a series of failed attempts earlier in the year. Artemis 1 took off at 6.47am (1.47am local time), with Nasa’s Space Launch System ...
The four astronauts will be the first to fly NASA's Orion capsule, launching atop a Space Launch System rocket from Kennedy Space Center no earlier than late 2024. NASA's 1st moon crew in 50 years ...
NASA is inviting people to send their names to the Moon aboard its first-ever robotic lunar rover, VIPER. Here's how you can get involved.
In 1984, with the Space Shuttle in service, a team based at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) made a feasibility study for NASA's return to the Moon.It anticipated later studies in using NASA's planned infrastructure – the Shuttle, a Shuttle-derived heavy lift vehicle, a space station, and an orbital transfer vehicle – to build a permanent 18-crew Moon base sometime between 2005 and 2015.
Crewed test of the Orion spacecraft on a free-return trajectory around the Moon. NASA: Artemis III: Orion, Starship HLS: mid-2027 [155] SLS Block 1: Deliver the "first woman and next man" to the Moon. NASA: Artemis IV: Orion, Starship HLS: September 2028 [156] SLS Block 1B: First flight of Block 1B configuration.