The Perseverance Mars rover is traveling through its initial checkout and activation, retrieving some 7,000 photos to date, releasing its seven-foot-long robot arm and taking a short test drive after a post-landing software upgrade, engineers said Friday. Robert Hogg, deputy mission manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, …
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Axiom Space has announced that it is building an office fee park and manufacturing center at Houston Spaceport in Ellington Field. This development is an optimistic sign that, despite the drag on by Congress, a commercial replacement of the International Space Station (ISS) could well take place. As the ISS …
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The Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Saturday that the International Space Station was still losing oxygen but the situation was under control, adding that the agency was ready to send an extra supply of oxygen if the problem escalated. With a defect apparently located in the section access section …
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When Artemis III, the first crude Artemis mission, finally touches the lunar surface, that moment will happen again like Apollo 11 … but then what? NASA has finally unveiled an unstable path of ultracool science objectives for Artemis III, including field geology, sample collection and compensation, and experiments that will …
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Cape Canaveral, Fla. – NASA has named 18 astronauts – half of them women – who will train for its Artemis Moon-landing program. The first woman on the moon and the next man will come from this elite group. Vice President Mike Pence introduced the astronauts on Wednesday at the …
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