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Firefly Aerospace's lunar lander carried NASA-sponsored experiments and commercial payloads as a part of Commercial Lunar Payload Services program to Mare Crisium. [3] Landing was completed successfully on 2 March 2025. [4] The Hakuto-R Mission 2 will carry the RESILIENCE lunar lander and the TENACIOUS micro rover. [5]
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 ...
NASASpaceflight, often referred to as NSF, is a private aerospace news organization, which operates a YouTube channel, website, and forum, which launched in 2005, as well as various social media channels covering crewed and uncrewed spaceflight and aerospace engineering news.
Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) is the first of Launch Complex 39's three launch pads, located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida.The pad, along with Launch Complex 39B, was first constructed in the 1960s to accommodate the Saturn V launch vehicle, and has been used to support NASA crewed space flight missions, including the historic Apollo 11 moon landing and the Space Shuttle.
SpaceX Crew-6 was the sixth crewed operational NASA Commercial Crew flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the ninth overall crewed orbital flight. The mission launched on 2 March 2023 at 05:34:14 UTC, and it successfully docked to the International Space Station (ISS) on 3 March 2023 at 06:40 UTC.
In March 2018, NASA officials decided that the ageing Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) will be managed such that it will continue service for about ten more years, and the program will now focus its resources on flying a sample-return mission first. [4] The 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter will also be managed to continue operating until about 2025. [22]
Spaceflight (or space flight) is an application of astronautics to fly objects, usually spacecraft, into or through outer space, either with or without humans on board.Most spaceflight is uncrewed and conducted mainly with spacecraft such as satellites in orbit around Earth, but also includes space probes for flights beyond Earth orbit.
On 20 June 2019, NASA announced that PUNCH and TRACERS were the winning candidates to become the next missions in the agency's Small Explorer program. [8] On 29 September 2023 NASA Launch Services Program selected SpaceX 's Falcon 9 rocket to provide the launch service for TRACERS launch through the Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and ...