Artemis III

By Mark Carreau
The National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine panel also acknowledged the mission’s extreme challenges and received initial comments.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
NASA’s plan to build a second mobile launcher for its upgraded Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will cost the agency $1.8 billion.
Space

By Robert Wall
Airbus is dispatching the third European Service Module (ESM-3) to the U.S. for eventual use on NASA’s mission to return humans to the moon.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA is seeking input to identify the near-term capabilities and assets necessary to achieve the Moon-to-Mars architecture’s objectives.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The rocket is intended for a September 2028 inaugural launch as part of the Artemis IV mission.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA must document efforts to address the greater-than-planned mass of the first two modules for its lunar-orbiting human-tended Gateway, says GAO auditors.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Matching NASA’s needs with the ideal contracting mechanism is a challenge.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The five recommendations are among nine identified by the GAO in May 2023 as “priority” that still await full implementation.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA administrator Bill Nelson again raised astronaut safety as the primary pacing item for Artemis III.
Space

By Graham Warwick, Joe Anselmo
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s inspector general has identified a range of technical issues of concern that arose during the uncrewed 2022 Artemis I mission.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Earlier this year, NASA announced a rescheduling of the Artemis II and Artemis III missions.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Axiom and Collins are working on new spacesuits for the agency’s lunar and LEO programs.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The multiyear Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services contract agreements have a combined maximum potential value of $4.6 billion over 15 years.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA has selected the first three science instruments for deployment on the Moon’s south pole as part of Artemis III.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The agency is asking for the same amount of money it received in 2023.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Last living Apollo 17 crewmember is guiding off-world prospecting.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The White House on March 11 unveiled a $25.4 billion spending plan for NASA in fiscal 2025.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The astronauts graduated from a two-year training period in a ceremony at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on March 5.
Space

By Irene Klotz
A compromise appropriations bill for fiscal 2024 keeps most funding for NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration initiative intact.
Space

By Mark Carreau
A NASA safety panel on Feb. 28 identified two issues that it is watching especially closely as the agency prepares for the Artemis II mission.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA has learned a number of lessons that have helped shape an evolving Moon-to-Mars Architecture strategy that underpins the agency’s Artemis program.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA intends to lead an internationally and commercially partnered effort to establish a sustainable human presence at the Moon and keep on going.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The Houston-based company is poised to become the fourth private entity to attempt a lunar landing.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
When astronauts land on the Moon, will taikonauts be there to greet them?
Space