November 18, 2019 NASA picks SpaceX, Blue Origin and more for private moon lander project NASA has picked SpaceX's Starship, Blue Origin's Blue Moon and three other commercial lunar lander companies to bid on proposals for its Artemis moon program.
November 7, 2019 Moon lander concept unveiled by Boeing as NASA eyes return to lunar surface Boeing has shown off its Moon crewed lander idea, one it says will require the "fewest steps to the Moon" as NASA looks to return to the lunar surface in 2024.
November 4, 2019 Space capsule soars in dramatic abort test Boeing’s Starliner capsule that will eventually take astronauts into space completed a key abort test Monday when it soared for almost a mile before parachuting back into the New Mexico desert.
October 28, 2019 Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane returns to Earth after record-breaking 780 days in orbit The U.S. Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane returned to Earth on Sunday after completing more than two years in orbit.
October 25, 2019 NASA announces new VIPER Moon rover that will explore the lunar surface NASA has unveiled its plan to send a new lunar rover, dubbed VIPER, to the surface of the Moon.
October 23, 2019 The 1st human on Mars may be a woman, NASA chief says When NASA sends humans to the moon for the first time in more than half a century, one lucky astronaut will go down in history for becoming the first woman on the moon. Then it won't be long before we see the first woman on Mars, and she just might beat the first man there, according to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.
October 21, 2019 NASA's Lucy mission to study the Trojan asteroids clears critical milestone NASA's Lucy mission, which is set to be the first space mission to study the Trojan asteroids, successfully completed its critical design review.
October 18, 2019 Trump calls to congratulate 'brilliant' NASA astronauts during their historic all-female spacewalk President Donald Trump called NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir during their historic first all-female spacewalk Friday.
October 18, 2019 NASA astronauts make history with first all-female spacewalk NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir have made history with the first all-female spacewalk.
October 15, 2019 Humans will never live on another planet, Nobel Laureate says. Here's why. Here's the reality: We're messing up the Earth and any far-out ideas of colonizing another orb when we're done with our own are wishful thinking. That's according to Michel Mayor, an astrophysicist who was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics this year for discovering the first planet orbiting a sun-like star outside of our solar system.
