NASA Planning For Regularly Recurring Human Moon Missions - Senior Executive Sat 17th April 2021 | 02:00 AM
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 17th April, 2021) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is now planning for regularly recurring ongoing manned missions to the Moon after its first Artemis Program landing scheduled for 2024, NASA Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate Associate Administrator Kathy Lueders said on Friday. This is part of an overall strategy for recurring missions to the lunar surface, Lueders told a podcast press conference. We felt this was the best strategy at this point to award to one [company] and then to begin discussions with industry. . This is obviously part of an overall larger strategy.
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos private spaceflight company Blue Origin is scheduled to launch experiments into space on its reusable New Shepard spacecraft on Wednesday after a weather delay that scrubbed a Tuesday liftoff.
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Jeff Bezos Blue Origin has conducted its fifteenth successful suborbital test flight of the aerospace company s New Shepard rocket.
New Shepard is a reusable rocket designed to carry tourists, researachers, and payloads to the edge of space and back, offering panoramic views and the brief experience of sitting in microgravity.
Wednesday s mission, which blasted off from Blue Origin s Launch Site One in Van Horn, Texas, served as a verification step as the company works towards sending its first human passengers to space.
Like previous New Shepard flight tests, NS-15 did not include any passengers. Instead, it contained the company s test dummy Mannequin Skywalker , along with 25,000 postcards from Club for the Future, a nonprofit dedicated to inspiring younger generations to pursue careers in STEM.
NASA Rover Challenge Awards to be Presented April 16
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala., April 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ NASA s Human Exploration Rover Challenge will host a virtual awards ceremony for its competing teams Friday, April 16, at 9 a.m. CDT. Media wishing to attend the ceremony should contact Janet Sudnik of NASA s Marshall Space Flight Center by 5 p.m. on April 15.
The student competition – one of seven Artemis Student Challenges – tasks high school and college teams from around the world to design, build, and test a human-powered rover capable of traversing simulated terrain from the Moon, Mars, and other rocky planets. Along the way, teams are also required to complete scientific tasks, reflecting spacewalks that were completed during NASA s Apollo Program and may be completed during NASA s Artemis Program.