News Archive / Tagged: Deep Space Gateway

• OPINION: Ending ISS too soon would be an Apollo-sized mistake

  Derek RichardsonFebruary 4th, 2018

  It appears the Trump administration may look to end support for the International Space Station by 2025. This proposal, if approved by Congress, would be a huge mistake similar to that of ending the Apollo program in 1972.

• ULA, Bigelow Aerospace set sights on lunar orbit outpost

  Bart LeahyOctober 19th, 2017

  United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Bigelow Aerospace are teaming up to send an inflatable space station to low-lunar orbit by 2022. The effort will feature a series of launches aboard ULA’s new Vulcan rocket using its Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage (ACES) to make Bigelow’s B330 habitat a depot to facilitate future exploration and development of the Moon.

• NASA, Roscosmos sign statement on lunar space station cooperation

  Curt GodwinSeptember 28th, 2017

  Continuing a tradition of cooperative partnership in space exploration, the respective space agencies of the United States and Russia signed a joint statement to develop a space station in lunar orbit. NASA and Roscosmos made the announcement on Sept. 27, 2017, at the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia.

• Lockheed Martin provides details into use of Shuttle-era cargo pods for proposed cislunar habitat

  Tomasz NowakowskiAugust 8th, 2017

  Lockheed Martin was recently selected by NASA to build a full-scale prototype of a cislunar habitat. The development of the habitation module is part of the Phase II contract for the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) program.

• NASA’s human spaceflight plans come into focus with announcement of Deep Space Gateway

  Curt GodwinApril 1st, 2017

  With NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) well into development, the agency has finally laid out plans for the early missions of its super-heavy-lift rocket. After an initial shakedown flight for Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1), the SLS will deliver components of what has been designated a "Deep Space Gateway" to lunar vicinity.