NASA delays Artemis II launch
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What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue has become especially acute with the recent loss of NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft. NASA’s best communications relay remains the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has now been there for 20 years.
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Blue Origin launches a NASA spacecraft to Mars - heating up the space race with Elon Musk's SpaceX
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has launched two NASA spacecraft destined for Mars, in the latest sign that the race with Elon Musk's SpaceX is heating up. The company's massive New Glenn rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, at 15: ...
NASA has launched the Mars to Table Challenge, seeking Earth-independent food systems capable of sustaining astronauts on long-duration Moon and Mars missions.
Ahead of the first launch window for Artemis 2, which runs from Feb. 8 to Feb. 11, NASA will complete a mission countdown simulation to power on and fuel the Space Launch System rocket. Operators are expected to be called to stations about 49 hours ahead of a simulated T-0,