NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a scathing report on the space agency’s second mobile launcher (ML-2) for its Moon rocket, which could cost $2.2 billion more than originally estimated. The report, issued this week, revealed the results of ...
Intuitive Machines, the venture-backed startup that went public last year, will send a moon lander to the lunar south pole in 2027 as part of a $116.9 million contract awarded by NASA on Thursday. This is NASA’s tenth award under ...
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule will bring Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore back home from the International Space Station in February 2025, NASA said on Saturday. The agency’s decision marks the latest setback for Boeing’s costly and chronically delayed Starliner ...
Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday August 24, 2024 @03:34PM from the ETA dept. Boeing “will return its Starliner capsule from the International Space Station without the NASA astronauts,” reports CNBC. Though they’ve been on the space station since early June, ...
Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday August 24, 2024 @01:34PM from the meet-the-meteor dept. NASA’s 2022 DART mission “successfully demonstrated how a fast-moving spacecraft could change an asteroid’s trajectory by crashing into it,” remembers Gizmodo, “potentially providing a way to defend ...
