News Archive / Tagged: lunar Gateway

• Video: SpaceFlight Insider’s Space Bulletin for May 11, 2019

  Derek RichardsonMay 11th, 2019

  This week, Blue Origin unveiled its Blue Moon lander while SpaceX’s CRS-17 Dragon arrived at the International Space Station.

• NASA head answers agency questions about ‘Moon by 2024’ goal

  Derek RichardsonApril 2nd, 2019

  NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told the agency what it'll take to accomplish the Trump administration's goal of returning humans to the Moon by 2024.

• Vice president: US astronauts on Moon within 5 years

  Derek RichardsonMarch 26th, 2019

  Vice President Pence lit a fire under the feet of all involved in returning astronauts to the Moon, telling NASA to do so by 2024 by "any means necessary."

• NASA budget request maintains Moon push, cuts other programs

  Derek RichardsonMarch 12th, 2019

  In President Trump's 2020 budget request, some NASA programs face serious cuts while the agency’s lunar exploration efforts are poised to receive a boost.

• Canada joins NASA’s Lunar Gateway project

  Derek RichardsonMarch 1st, 2019

  Having partnered with the U.S. in its space ambitions for decades, Canada committed to continue that relationship by joining NASA's Lunar Gateway project.

• NASA seeking proposals for human-rated lunar lander systems

  Derek RichardsonFebruary 9th, 2019

  With SLS and Orion in the latter stages of development, NASA wants to work with industry to develop a human-rated lunar lander by the mid-to-late 2020s.

• NASA Administrator Bridenstine: ‘We’re not going to do flags and footprints again’

  Derek RichardsonAugust 30th, 2018

  In the first-ever televised NASA Advisory Council meeting, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine described the United States' latest effort to return to the Moon as one about sustainability.

• Aerojet Rocketdyne demonstrates electric propulsion capabilities for future deep space missions

  Derek RichardsonAugust 29th, 2018

  An early systems integration test was performed by Aerojet Rocketdyne for NASA’s Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) program, which includes technology that could be used on NASA’s proposed lunar orbiting outpost in the early 2020s, the company said.