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Falcon Heavy to Lift First Lunar Gateway Elements NET May 2024, NASA Announces
@SpaceX Falcon Heavy will launch the first elements of the lunar-orbiting Gateway no sooner than May 2024, NASA announced Tuesday. More
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Second Hot Fire Test NET 21 Feb, As Artemis-1 Booster Stacking Continues
As @NASA_SLS boosters continue to stack up at @NASAKennedy, teams at @NASAStennis target NET 21 Feb for second #GreenRun Core Stage Hot Fire Test. More
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National Team Blazes New Trail from Apollo to Human Landing System (HLS)
As @NASA prepares to land the next man and the first woman on the Moon by 2024, engineers, managers & astronauts came together Thursday to discuss America’s next giant leap. More
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We Shall Return: Remembering Apollo 17’s Departure from the Moon, OTD in 1972
As NASA’s #ArtemisTeam prepares to return humans to the Moon, AmericaSpace looks back on the last time people were on the lunar surface, OTD in 1972. More
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in MoonNorthrop Grumman Completes Critical Review for Gateway HALO Module
As @NorthropGrumman completes Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for #Gateway & #Artemis, the coming months will prove critical for the fledgling program. More
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‘SCE to Aux’: Remembering Apollo 12’s Hair-Raising Launch, OTD in 1969
OTD in 1969, #Apollo12 astronauts Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon & Al Bean launched to the Moon. Then a thunderstorm got in their way. More
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Never A Better Dollar: Remembering Gemini XI, OTD in 1966 (Part 1)
As @NASA_SLS readies to send humans again beyond Earth orbit, AmericaSpace looks back at #GeminiXI in Sept 1966, which remains the highest non-lunar mission ever flown by humans. More
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Completes Propulsion Hardware for Artemis-2 Crewed Lunar Mission
@AerojetRdyne has completed its rocket engines & motors that will propel Artemis-2 & humans back to the Moon. More
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in NASA, Moon, Commercial, SpaceNASA Announces Contracts for VIPER Mission to Lunar South Pole
NASA has selected Astrobotic Technology, Inc., of Pittsburgh, Penn., to launch its Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission, targeted to rise from Earth in 2023 and alight on the Moon’s shadowed south pole. The $199.5 million contract will see VIPER delivered to the surface of our closest celestial neighbor aboard Astrobotic’s home-grown Griffin lander, […] More
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in SpaceNASA Selects Companies to Develop Vehicles for Landing Humans on the Moon
America’s goal to return humans to the Moon before the end of 2024 took a significant stride forward with today’s announcement by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine of the selection of teams led by Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX to design and develop Human Landing System (HLS) concepts for the Artemis program. In a media teleconference […] More
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Game of Solitaire: Remembering Apollo 13’s Lost Moonwalks, 50 Years On (Part 2)
In an alternate universe, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise should have been the fifth and sixth sons of humanity to have walked the surface of an alien world. In April 1970, the pair—joined by their Apollo 13 crewmate Jack Swigert—launched on the fifth piloted mission to the Moon, with an expectation that Lovell and Haise […] More
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‘Driven By Confidence’: Remembering Apollo 13’s Lost Moonwalks, 50 Years On (Part 1)
Had the cruelty of fate not intervened, a half-century ago, this month, the fifth and sixth humans ever to set foot on another world twice have walked on the dusty surface of the Moon. Following their launch aboard Apollo 13 and a voyage across 240,000 miles (370,000 km) of cislunar space, on 16 April 1970 […] More
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