Category: Moon

NASA Selects New Technology Partnerships for Moon and Mars Explorations

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA has announced the selection of 14 American companies for technology partnerships in the agency’s ‘Tipping Point’ program to help enable the agency’s Moon to Mars exploration approach and return to our nearest neighbor and land astronauts on the Moon by 2024 under the Project Artemis program. The selections address technology areas such as cryogenic propellant production and management, sustainable

India Finds Vikram Lander on Moon with Attempts to Make Contact In Progress

TITUSVILLE, FL –  Indian scientists have found the location of their ambitious Vikram lunar lander on the Moon’s surface this weekend via imaging from their Chandrayaan-2 orbiting mothership – after it was feared lost when contact was lost on Friday, Sept. 6  in the final moments of descent for India’s first attempt to soft land a robotic probe on the Moon’s rugged surface in a