CAPSTONE in orbit near the Moon: Once released from Rocket Lab’s Photon satellite bus, CAPSTONE will use its propulsion system to travel for approximately three…
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Illustrations of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft on the launch pad. Credit: NASA NASA Managers Give “Go” to Proceed Toward Artemis I…
The CAPSTONE mission is planned for launch no earlier than May 2022. Rocket Lab’s Photon satellite bus will deliver CAPSTONE into a trajectory toward the…
[embedded content]The appearance of the Moon during the November 2022 total lunar eclipse. Includes annotations of the contact times and various eclipse statistics. All phases…
The Flower Moon lunar eclipse over NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans is shown from the initial partial eclipse to totality in a composite…
The Flower Moon lunar eclipse over NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans is shown from the initial partial eclipse to totality in a composite…
Mars is kept company by two cratered moons—an inner moon named Phobos and an outer moon named Deimos. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Asaph Hall, an…
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, is a CubeSat that will fly a unique orbit around the Moon intended…
This illustration shows NASA’s Lunar Flashlight over the Moon. The SmallSat mission will have a very elongated orbit, taking it within 9 miles (15 kilometers)…
The Moon as seen from the International Space Station. This image was taken by ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli during his second mission to ‘MagISStra’ on…
Astronaut Scott Tingle takes a closer look at rock formations at Black Point Lava Flow, Arizona during a simulated spacewalk on day 5 of NASA’s…
A vision of a future Moon settlement assembled from semi-buried inflatable habitats. Sited beside the lunar poles in regions of near-perpetual solar illumination, mirrors positioned…
Join with NASA in celebrating “International Observe the Moon Night” on October 1, 2022. Credit: NASA/Vi Nguyen NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space…
Lunar craters. Credit & Copyright: Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau Lunar glass shows Moon asteroid impacts mirrored on Earth Scientists have found asteroid impacts on the Moon…
NASA released a new blueprint for shaping exploration throughout the solar system. Credit: NASA Last week, NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration…
Artist concept of the Blue Origin National Team crewed lander on the surface of the Moon as part of the Artemis program. Credit: Blue Origin…
An artist’s illustration of two suited crew members working on the lunar surface. The one in the foreground lifts a rock to examine it while…
The currently most widely accepted theory about the Moon’s origins is the “giant-impact” theory. It proposes that the Moon was created by Earth colliding with…
Illustration of Artemis astronauts on the Moon. Credit: NASA The first flight of the Artemis Generation – the journey of half a million miles –…
A supermoon rises behind the Washington Monument, Sunday, June 23, 2013, in Washington. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls The next full moon is a marginal supermoon and…