Not since 1972 has a human set foot on the Moon, but NASA is aiming to change that through its ambitious Artemis program. The lunar missions could begin in late 2022, so we’ve assembled this guide to keep you informed and up to date. This post will be upd...
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NASA is delaying its plan to return humans to the Moon in 2024, in part because of Blue Origins legal battle to stop the agency from awarding a lunar lander contract to SpaceX.We lost nearly seven months in litigation, and that likely has pushed the...
NASA has officially adjusted its timeline for the Artemis III mission and won’t be landing on the Moon in 2024. The agency is now aiming to land the first woman and next American man on the lunar surface in 2025 at the earliest, NASA administra...
NASA has officially adjusted its timeline for the Artemis III mission and won’t be landing on the Moon in 2024. The agency is now aiming to land the first woman and next American man on the lunar surface in 2025 at the earliest, NASA administra...
NASA’s Project Artemis’ three top HLS concepts. Credit: NASA Project Artemis, NASA’s long-awaited plan to send astronauts to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era, has made many steps.Apart from the development of Space l...
1916: Zeppelin, large and fragile, is protected from the weather in its cavernous shed. Credit: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, VOL. CXV, NO. 3; JULY 15, 1916Advertisement1966Soft Landing on the MoonSix hundred miles from the site where the Russian spacecraft L...
I often think that project managers are the unsung heroes of the tech revolution. Everyone celebrates founders and CEOs, and we all talk about the importance of great coding and great engineering. That's certainly appropriate. But without project man...
One of Nvidia's latest demos has piqued the interest of former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin.To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, Nvidia made a video that recreated the historic moment in realistic detail using its latest graphics tech...
Courtesy of the JFK Presidential LibraryThe John F. Kennedy Presidential Library has released an augmented reality app (AR) to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, and the role President Kennedy played in getting the U.S. to the moon...
Courtesy of NASAHulu’s live TV service is getting NASA TV just in time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. In addition to a live feed, which is available only to subscribers of Hulu’s live TV tier, Hulu is also gaining acce...
lowSlideCount) { %>of/g, '') %>KTSDESIGN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYGetty ImagesScientists have pieced together multiple entire ancient bear genetic codes from soil sediment.The secret is using whole genomes as templates to reconstruct the ancie...
Web search leader Google Inc. will sponsor a 30 million competition for an unmanned lunar landing, following up on the 10 million Ansari X Prize that spurred a private sector race to space.Like the Ansari X Prize, which was claimed in 2004 by aircraf...
Forty years to the minute after it happened our Apollo 11 live blog will replay every historic word transmitted by the Apollo 11 astronauts and the control team during the most exciting part of the mission – when Neil Armstrong and “Buzz”...
lowSlideCount) { %>of/g, '') %>ABC Photo ArchivesGetty ImagesAt 3:17 p.m. ET, Apollo 11's lander touched down on the lunar surface. Fifty years later, the mission remains one of the most important in the history of space exploration.T...
This summer, on July 20, we will mark the golden anniversary of the first-ever Moon landing, and we’ll do so at a moment for space exploration that may turn out to surpass the 1969 original.The race to the Moon in the 1960s was a stunning achi...
Back in 1976, NASA gave 1,150 reels of 2-inch Quadruplex videotape to a government surplus auction. Gary George, a former intern at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, snapped up the lot of them for $218, in the hopes of selling them to news stations...
Could a new material that uses static charge to stick to any surface spell doom for Post-it notes?(Bookniture)ByLi Zhousmithsonianmag.comMarch 20, 2015Code can often look like a daunting, impermeable wall of text. Cartoons, on the other hand, are a l...
The 363-foot Apollo 11 spacecraft launches on July 16, 1969 (NASA)July 20, 2019, marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The groundbreaking journey began on July 16, 1969, when NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michae...
Tied to a new series from the Smithsonian Channel, the app is the closest you can get to being on the moon without time-traveling to 1969The new app allows users to walk on the moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.(Courtesy Smithsonian Channel)By...
As Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, radio telescope operators in New South Wales scrambled to receive the live videoNASA Mission Control during the Apollo 11 moonwalk, with the live broadcast from the lunar surface on the screen.(NA...
