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2022 will see NASA, with help from its international partners, take the first major step on humanity’s journey back to the Moon, and the start of a mission to establish an outpost alongside Earth’s natural satellite.

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Airbus Crisa will be in charging with developing the power system for NASA's future Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO)

Countries are racing to explore Earth's closest neighbour | Science & technology

The mission that will crash into an asteroid so we will hopefully never have to live inside a scene from Deep Impact is now heading out on its collision course.

For instance, NASA will be using the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft to send astronauts back to the Moon starting in 2024. The core of the Gateway - the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) - will also be launched by 2024 using a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Paired with a reusable lunar lander, this orbital habitat will allow for long-duration missions to the lunar surface. Between 2024 and 2028, NASA also intends to add the Internatio...

- Canada looks to Canadian company MDA to build robotics interfaces for the Gateway. - Canada is paving the way for its participation in humanitys return to the Moon. Today, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced Canadas intent to enter into a contract with Brampton-based company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) to design, manufacture, test, and deliver robotics interfaces that will allow Canadarm3 to operate on the Lun...

We're witnessing the first sustainable steps into the future of space exploration! Check out the big bump in power coming to the ISS.

Welcome back to our "Life in 2050" series. Our previous installments explored how the world of warfare, economics, and life at home could drastically change by mid-century. For our fourth installment, we will be taking a look at what will be happening beyond Earth. This will include everything from Earth orbit to the very edge of the solar system... and beyond. In the next three decades, human beings will enter the realm of space like never before. This is due in part to the way that public in...

NASA space station prime contractor Boeing. The solar arrays are now undergoing flight package integration in preparation for launch on SpaceX’s 22nd commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) next month. Redwire designed, manufactured, and tested the six new solar arrays, equipped with upgraded solar cells from Boeing’s Spectrolab. The ROSA arrays were developed by Redwire subsidiary Deployable Space Systems (DSS) and were first successfully demonstrated on ISS ...