[ad_1] The Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus cargo spacecraft takes off from NASA’s Wallops flight facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, United States, on February 15, 2020. (Photo by Ting Shen / Xinhua) “With these contractual awards, the United States is moving forward with the final step necessary to land astronauts …
Read More »NASA chooses three contracts, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX to build new lunar landers
[ad_1] SpaceX founder Elon Musk speaks at a post-launch press conference after the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. (Image: Reuters) Lunar landers will carry astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface of the Moon and vice versa. Reuters Last update: May 1, 2020 1:25 p.m. IST NASA selected space firms SpaceX, …
Read More »Nasa names companies to build Moon landers for human missions
[ad_1] Image copyright Blue Origin Image caption The National Team partnership, led by Blue Origin, will build a lander that’s split into three parts NASA has chosen the companies that will develop landers to send astronauts to the Moon’s surface in the 2020s. The White House wants to send the …
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