Private aerospace and defense company Northrup Grumman’s Antares rocket launched its NG-11 Cygnus spacecraft Wednesday evening, April 17, and is on course to rendezvous with the International Space Station.
NASA Astrobees set to swarm the Space Station
Can NASA land astronauts on the Moon by 2024?
Vice President Mike Pence announced a new goal for NASA: Put American astronauts back on the surface of the Moon by 2024. Pence went on during his address to emphasis that NASA’s aim to land humans on the Moon by 2028 was “just not good enough.” This comes less than two weeks after NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told members at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing that the Space Launch System (SLS), the rocket…
SLS delayed again, NASA considering aggressive timeline to launch EM-1
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told members of the Senate Commerce Committee last week that the agency is considering launching its new Orion spacecraft aboard a commercial vehicle. “I think we should launch around the moon June of 2020, and I think it can be done. We need to consider, as an agency, all options to accomplish that objective,” Bridenstine said. Doing so will be a major undertaking…
