An editorial recently published on SpaceNews took the position that my company’s Luna Memorial Spaceflight service should not be permitted on the Moon because the Navajo Nation views the Moon as sacred. In essence, the author is arguing that lawful space missions should be subject to the religious test of a single culture. The heart […]
Nine companies have been selected to conduct early-stage studies of concepts for commercial services to support lower-cost, higher-frequency missions to the Red Planet. NASA has identified nine U.S. companies to perform a total of 12 concept studies of how commercial services can be applied to enable science missions to Mars. Each awardee will receive between […]
5 min read What to look for: Morning Meteors and May Planets See Mars, Saturn, and Mercury in the May morning sky. Antares slips behind the Moon for East Coast U.S. skywatchers. And the eta Aquariid meteors peak May 6th. Transcript What’s Up for May? The Moon hangs out with Saturn twice this month, the […]
Image: NASA ” data-medium-file=”https://spaceexplored.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Boeing-Starliner-ISS.jpeg?quality=82&strip=all&w=300″ data-large-file=”https://spaceexplored.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Boeing-Starliner-ISS.jpeg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1024″> Image: NASA By the end of the week the International Space Station will be fully ready to support Boeing Starliner’s Crewed Test Flight with an opening on the forward docking port on the station’s Harmony Module. This will be completed with the reshuffling of two SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. SpaceX returns […]
All necks will be craned toward the heavens next year when NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket blasts the Artemis 2 mission toward the moon. Artemis 2 will launch four astronauts around the moon in September 2025, if all goes according to plan. It will be the first crewed effort beyond Earth orbit since the […]
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released a video of its concept for a lunar base to be developed across the next couple of decades. CNSA unveiled the video on Wednesday (April 24) as part of the country’s annual space day celebrations. The project is known as the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) and […]
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released a video of its concept for a lunar base to be developed across the next couple of decades. CNSA unveiled the video on Wednesday (April 24) as part of the country’s annual space day celebrations. The project is known as the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) and […]
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) may have discovered its first free-floating, or “orphaned,” planet. That’s a planet roaming the cosmos without a star, all alone. The potential discovery demonstrates that TESS can use a phenomenon first suggested by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago to spot these so-called rogue planets. Despite the fact that […]
The journey into space is a long one, which gives many spacecraft time for a side quest or two during their missions. In the case of the European Space Agency‘s Hera mission, the side quest is a close encounter with Mars — more specifically, a good look at its moon: Deimos. Scheduled to launch in October, […]