Tag: Lunar Lander

  • Blue Origin completes successful suborbital space shot

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    Blue Origin’s 60-foot-tall New Shepard rocket takes off from West Texas on Tuesday. Credit: Blue Origin Blue Origin launched its New Shepard suborbital rocket to the edge of space Tuesday from the company’s remote desert test site in West Texas on an experimental flight to test precision lunar landing technology for NASA. The single-stage New…

  • Boeing proposes SLS-launched lunar lander

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    EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Nov. 10 to correct references to ascent and descent stage functions. Artist’s concept of Boeing’s lunar lander taking off from the moon. Credit: Boeing Boeing is touting a lunar lander concept that the company claims could launch in one piece on an upgraded version of NASA’s Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket — which…

  • NASA opens competition to build human-rated lunar landers

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    Artist’s illustration of a multi-stage human-rated lunar lander. Credit: NASA Companies have until Nov. 1 to submit proposals to NASA for a human-rated lander that could be ready in time to carry astronauts to the moon’s surface by the end of 2024, and the agency is leaving open the option for contractors to develop a…

  • Astrobotic lunar lander to launch on ULA’s first Vulcan rocket

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    Artist’s concept of a Vulcan Centaur rocket with two solid rocket boosters. Credit: United Launch Alliance Astrobotic, a Pittsburgh-based company developing a robotic lunar lander, will launch its first moon mission under contract to NASA on the debut flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket in 2021, officials announced Monday. If successful, Astrobotic’s Peregrine…

  • NASA directs Alabama space center to manage lunar lander program

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani Despite protests from Texas lawmakers, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will manage the agency’s plans to build a lunar landing system that will carry the next man and the first woman to the surface of the moon in…

  • NASA boss pleads for funding to ensure 2024 moon landing

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine testifies to lawmakers Wednesday on Capitol Hill. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told a Senate panel Wednesday that a budget impasse and subsequent spending freeze later this year would be “devastating” to the agency’s goal of sending the first woman and next…

  • Trump adds $1.6 billion to NASA budget request to kick start ‘Artemis’ moon mission

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s illustration of a lunar lander. Credit: NASA The Trump administration is adding an additional $1.6 billion to NASA’s $21 billion 2020 budget request to kick start plans to return American astronauts to the moon in 2024, four years earlier than previously planned, NASA announced Monday. In a…

  • Jeff Bezos unveils ‘Blue Moon’ lander

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    Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, reveals the “Blue Moon” moon lander during an event Thursday in Washington, D.C. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, discussed his vision for spaceflight and lunar exploration Thursday in Washington, revealing new details about a privately-developed lunar lander he said will…