NASA, Moon and Artemis
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EaglePicher Technologies, which has been a part of space exploration since its earliest days, is going back soon as part of the Artemis moon missions. “It’s exciting because we were there when NASA
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The space race between U.S. billionaires is heating up, with Elon Musk's SpaceX planning to build a lunar base and Jeff Bezos pushing Blue Origin's ambitions as both companies aim to return humans to the moon ahead of a planned mission by China in 2030.
The company said it uses 2 kilograms of Americium-241 fuel to generate 50 watts of power for a lunar rover, compared with about 10 kilograms of radioisotope material needed by legacy systems. The production rate for Americium-241 is currently only a few kilograms a year, with projections reaching 10 kilograms per year by the mid-2030s.
Natasha Wiest, Boeing's SLS core stage program manager, delivered a NASA Artemis II-themed speech to a space-industry audience in Cape Canaveral.
Are you ready for a bona fide moon shot? The upcoming Artemis II mission is one of the most exciting space excursions in recent memory. It'll be the first time humans have flown to the moon since December 1972, when the landmark Apollo program wrapped up ...
See footage Orion Spacecraft, moon and Earth shortly before its "outbound powered flyby burn". Orion was less than 2000 miles away from the moon and over 200,000 miles away from Earth. Credit: Credit: NASA / edited by Space.
When you really want to get away from it all, sometimes even a remote island isn’t remote enough. Thankfully, if a clutch of sky-high thinking entrepreneurs and designers have their way, we will soon really be able to slip out of this world completely.
Humans haven’t been back to the moon since the Apollo moons program ended over five decade ago. The reasons why go beyond science, according to experts.