At this time, there is no sound reason to build a spacefaring infrastructure primarily designed to support human space exploration, such as a science-focused lunar base or the first human Mars missions, as the 1950s infrastructure proposals were ...

The two-stage rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 9:54 a.m. carrying a payload for Iridium Communications Inc., which is replacing its entire global network with 70 next-generation satellites.

Engineers are finalising the design of a Lunar Resource Prospector, which is intended to trawl the Moon's surface in the next decade and hunt for water.

Arizona State University's NASA mission to visit a metal asteroid is just beginning, but the first mission that marked the school as a major player in space exploration has been under way for more than a year.

Moonwalker dies NASA astronaut and US Navy captain Eugene Cernan, the last person to walk on the Moon, died on 16 January. On 14 December 1972, as the Apollo 17 mission neared its end, Cernan stepped off the lunar surface and vowed that humans would ...

Credit: NASA/S. Sutherland. This is not a complete list of lunar features, by any measure, as there are far too many to detail in a short web article.

NASA's latest data has the potential to provide the most accurate maps to find the Solar Eclipse, the previous maps in the past years have not been very accurate and now scientists are obtaining new data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance. The map will ...

During the panel session, the speakers focused on the state of the presidential transition, including the arrival of a "landing team" at NASA that is helping the agency move over to the new administration. ... commander Neil Armstrong, NASA ...

This becomes a major plot point when Katherine is called up to the big leagues to work with the Space Task Group, the elite NASA engineers who planned the lunar landing campaign. Katherine's new boss is Al Harrison, a slice of ham and cheese played by ...

(Photo : NASA/Central Press/Getty Images). Aliens on ... Previously a UFO Hunter from Finland also spotted an antenna-like spike on the photo of the moon from the Lunar Orbiter, which he claimed was an alien antenna located on the roof of an alien base.

Update, Sunday, Jan. 8: Bad weather in California has pushed SpaceX's targeted return-to-flight date back five days, to Jan. 14, customer Iridium Communications said in a statement today: "With high winds and rain in the forecast at Vandenberg Air ...

We need to get ready for Mars. You don't have to build a base on the moon, but you do have to learn to operate within that environment with the current generation of engineers, scientists and astronauts.

Bloom argues that, under Trump, NASA should “get out of the rocket business” and focus on elements of space infrastructure such as in-space refueling depots, space habitats, off-world fuel and oxygen production facilities and space tugs.

Astronaut Gene Cernan traced his only child's initials in the dust of the lunar surface. Then he climbed .... The two-stage rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 9:54 a.m. carrying a payload for Iridium Communications Inc., which is ...

He was the lunar module pilot of Apollo 10, the first comprehensive test of NASA's moon lander, in 1969.Mr Cernan's ... If they stay behind, developers don't have a large enough base to make the games that they develop for a platform profitable. Last ...

And it makes Southern California the definitive home base of the Star Wars galaxy, with Disney having bought the rights to the franchise and now building a Star Wars-themed land within its Magic Kingdom in Anaheim.

The most notorious of these instances is from Episode 10: “The Mysterious Dinosaur Base!”, where Ultraman fights a giant lizard named ..... Yuko Minami is revealed to be a lunar princess in Episode 28: "Farewell Yuko, Sister of the Moon", and is ...