NASA and the Government of Japan on Thursday announced further contributions by Japan to Gateway, a key component of the agency’s Artemis missions for long-term lunar exploration. NASA Administrator ...

But others, including a previous NASA administrator and a former Space Station astronaut, say Gateway is an expensive, risky, dilly-dallying step engineers could skip — and that NASA could instead ...

The AEPS engines are more than twice as powerful as current in-space ion thrusters. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking ...

In one way or another, the Lunar Gateway has lingered around the periphery of NASA’s human exploration program since the Obama administration. Back then, the elements that eventually coalesced into ...

The Apollo lunar missions worked by using a spacecraft in two parts. The Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM) traveled together from the launch pad at Cape Kennedy to lunar orbit ...

NASA has plans to launch the first deep space station for humans to live long-term. Is it a necessary step to Mars? By Sarah Scoles/Undark Published Feb 3, 2025 8:00 AM EST This article was originally ...