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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The assembly of the Gateway lunar outpost will begin no earlier than May 2024, NASA said in a statement Tuesday.

Feb 10, 2021 02:54 EST The National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) has awarded Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) another important contract for the formers lunar space station. Dubbed as the Lunar Gateway, the station is a non-critical part of the agencys Artemis program which aims to land U.S. astronauts on the lunar surface decades after the completion of the Apollo program. Todays award is the second Gateway contract that NASA has awarded to the California-based launch ...

NASA has selected Elon Musks private aerospace company SpaceX to provide launch services for two major components of the Gateway that will serve as a way station for future Moon missions.As part of the contract, SpaceX will provide launch ...

SPACEX has been picked by NASA to launch the first elements of the US space agencys most ambitious project to date, the Lunar Gateway. The Gateway will play a key role in NASAs rapidly approaching lunar programme, Artemis.

Blue Origin employees stand next to a pathfinder version of a cargo lunar lander. (Blue Origin via Twitter) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is testing a full-scale prototype of its cargo lunar lander, as part of its campaign to get a jump on heavy-duty deliveries to the moon. In a video posted today to Twitter and Instagram, members of Blue Origin’s lander development team provided a status report on their efforts. The pathfinder lander has been taking shape at the factory ...

Days after SpaceX won a NASA contract to launch a galaxy-mapping space telescope, the space agency has selected Falcon Heavy to launch a small space station to the Moon some four years from now. Loosely known as Gateway, NASA and a few of its ‘centers’ have been floating the concept for years – partially on […]

NASA introduces new class of flight directors FacebookTwitterEmail NASA’s Johnson Space Center Mission Control White Flight Control Room on Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, in Houston.Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer NASA has selected four new flight directors to oversee operations of the International Space Station, the agency announced. These individuals join an elite group of 101 people who have worked in Houstons Mission Control Center leading flight controllers, engineers...

/PRNewswire/ -- NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agencys Power and...

Credits: NASA NASA has selected four new additions to its cadre of flight directors to oversee operations of the International Space Station. The newest inductees in the class of 2021 are Diane Dailey, Chloe Mehring, Fiona Turett, and Brandon Lloyd. They will work in the Mission Control Center of NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston to lead teams of flight controllers, engineers, and countless professionals, both agencywide and internationally. Following a rigorous training program that includ...

Rolls-Royce runs first engine on its large, smart testbed Testbed 80 has been designed to test today’s jet engines and the hybrid or all-electric flight systems of the future. With an internal area of 7,500m 2, making it larger than a Premiership football [soccer] pitch, the testbed conducted its first run on a Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engine at the test facility in Derby, UK. This is a major milestone in the project which has been under construction for almost three years and represents a $123 ...