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I swear I didn’t intend this to be a space news blog but I have to share this historic news, the crew of the first crewed mission to the moon in my lifetime. Meet the astronauts! Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen will make a trip to the moon and back, although […]
Carnegie Mellon University is sending a rover built by students to the moon. Called “Iris”, this tiny rover is the size of a shoebox and weighs only 2kg. It is built from carbon fiber and will actually be the first American robot on the moon. The payload is being sent by commercial company United Launch […]
NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which launched on the Artemis I mission on November 16th last month, made a successful return to Earth after doing two lunar flybys. It splashed down yesterday at 9:40 a.m. PST off the coast of California, 50 years to the day of the Apollo 17 landing, humankind’s last trip to the moon. Congrats […]
Earlier today, we saw the successful launch of the uncrewed Artemis I mission, the first launch in the Artemis missions that will bring humanity back to the moon again. Despite the numerous setbacks and delays, the rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft blasted off without incident from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 01:47:44 Eastern Time. […]