Tag: Exploration Mission-2
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NASA begins outlining roadmap for 2024 moon landing
Bill Gerstenmaier, head of NASA’s human spaceflight programs, speaks April 8 during a meeting at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani A senior NASA official said Tuesday that the Space Launch System, a huge heavy-lift rocket years behind schedule, could launch astronauts on a moon landing mission in 2024 on just its…
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Space Launch System, planetary exploration get big boosts in NASA budget
Artist’s illustration of the Space Launch System. Credit: NASA NASA’s planned rocket to send humans back to the moon and the agency’s solar system exploration program were big winners in a $20.7 billion budget passed by Congress and signed by President Trump on Friday. The NASA funding was part of a $1.3 trillion federal spending…
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Orion spacecraft may not fly with astronauts until 2023
Artist’s concept of the Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA The first piloted flight of NASA’s Orion space capsule, a vehicle designed to carry astronauts away from Earth for the first time in two generations, may slip from 2021 to 2023, agency officials said Wednesday. A thorough review of the program in recent weeks highlighted risks that…
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Orion spacecraft may not fly with astronauts until 2023
Artist’s concept of the Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA The first piloted flight of NASA’s Orion space capsule, a vehicle designed to carry astronauts away from Earth for the first time in two generations, may slip from 2021 to 2023, agency officials said Wednesday. A thorough review of the program in recent weeks highlighted risks that…
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Decision looms on when to introduce new SLS upper stage
Artist’s concept of the Space Launch System’s upgraded upper stage with four RL10 engines. NASA officials want to introduce the new upper stage on the first crewed SLS launch in 2021, if budgets allow. Credit: Boeing NASA officials are waiting to see if Congress adds funding to the agency’s budget next year to kick-start development…