NASA celebrates new astronauts in first public graduation ceremony
NASA on Friday celebrated its latest class of graduating astronauts at a public ceremony in Houston, honoring a diverse and gender-balanced group now qualified for spaceflight missions including America's return to the moon and eventual journey to Mars. After completing more than two years of ...
India to take another shot at moon landing after crash last year
India will attempt a second moon landing, after a previous try last year failed just minutes before a scheduled touchdown on the lunar surface, in a bid to restore its credentials as an ambitious space power. The South Asian nation's Chandrayaan-3 mission to the moon, ...
After failed bid, India targets another mission to moon in 2020
India plans to make a fresh attempt to land an unmanned mission on the moon this year after a failed bid last year, the head of the country's space program said Wednesday. Work is going "smoothly" on the Chandrayaan-3 mission to put a rover probe ...
NASA finds Indian lunar lander with help of amateur space enthusiast
India's Vikram lunar lander, which crashed on its final approach to the moon's surface in September, has been found thanks in part to the sleuthing efforts of an amateur space enthusiast. NASA made the announcement Monday, releasing an image taken by its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ...
Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin partners with Lockheed and others on moon lander
U.S. billionaire Jeff Bezos said on Tuesday his space company Blue Origin has signed agreements with Lockheed Martin Corp., Northrop Grumman Corp. and research and development organization Draper for development of its lunar lander designed to help NASA put humans on the moon by ...
Japan's space policy committee in the Cabinet Office decided Thursday to participate in the U.S. program to land astronauts on the moon by 2024. Tokyo will notify Washington later this year about the decision by the Committee on National Space Policy. Japan will offer technical cooperation ...
A lunar rover that will explore the moon on foot in 2021 was unveiled in London on Thursday. The new concept, with four legs rather than wheels, will send data back to a larger mother ship, which will transmit it back to Earth. U.K. startup Spacebit ...
Australia will invest 150 million Australian dollars ($100 million) in its companies and technology to help U.S. President Donald Trump's bid for a moon landing by 2024 and subsequent U.S. missions to Mars, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said over the weekend. Morrison, visiting NASA headquarters ...
India loses moon probe; Modi hints speed was too high on approach
India lost communication with its unmanned spacecraft Saturday just before it was due to land on the moon, in a blow to the country's lunar ambitions as the world takes renewed interest in Earth's satellite. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi looked on in the mission ...
There might be life on the moon after all: thousands of virtually indestructible creatures that can withstand extreme radiation, sizzling heat, extreme cold and decades without food. These terrifying-sounding beings aren't aliens but instead microscopic Earthlings known as tardigrades, who likely made it out alive ...
Betting on the future of mobility, Toyota pours billions into variety of deals and partnerships
Everywhere you turn in the transportation industry these days, Toyota Motor Corp. already seems to be there. From batteries and self-driving vehicles to lunar rovers and ride-hailing companies, the world's second-biggest automaker is on an investment spree, pouring more than ¥300 billion into deals and ...
Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide wants Japanese tech to be used to explore the moon and Mars
Japan should make use of its space technology in international missions to explore the moon and Mars, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide said in an interview in New York on Friday. "As an advanced space nation, Japan has entered an era in which it should play ...
