Seit der historischen Apollo-Mission vor mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert hat die Menschheit davon geträumt, den Mond erneut zu betreten. Mit dem Artemis-Programm der NASA ist dieser Traum nun greifbar nahe. Artemis 2, die zweite geplante bemannte Mission, spielt eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Vorbereitung auf die Rückkehr zum Mond. Hier ist der aktuelle Stand…
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Die NASA erteilt Jeff Bezos Raumfahrtunternehmen Blue Origin den Bauauftrag für die Monadlandefähre Blue Moon. Der Auftrag an Blue Origin hat ein Volumen von 3,15 Milliarden Euro. Wie die US-Weltraumagentur mitteilte, soll die Landefähre bei der für 2029 geplanten Mondlandemission Artemis 5 verwendet werden. Gründer Jeff Bezos äußerte sich zum Zuschlag an sein Unternehmen: Es…
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Direct from America’s space program to YouTube, watch NASA TV live streaming here to get the latest from our exploration of the universe and learn how we discover our home planet. NASA TV airs a variety of regularly scheduled, pre-recorded educational and public relations programming 24 hours a day on its various channels. The network…
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After three days orbiting Earth, the astronauts of Inspiration4 flying aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft safely splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 7:06 p.m. EDT. The return marks the completion of the world’s first all-civilian human spaceflight to orbit. Teams on SpaceX’s Go Searcher recovery ship are in the process of…
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SpaceX’s first all-civilian launch is scheduled to launch on Wednesday (Sept. 15) carrying a message of diversity during the third billionaire-led flight to launch in 2021. The mission, called Inspiration4, includes four private citizens who will fly on a Crew Dragon spacecraft for an Earth-orbiting mission. The Crew Billionaire Jared Issacman founder of Shift4 Payments,…
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NASA is getting ready to send astronauts to explore more of the Moon as part of the Artemis program, and the agency has selected SpaceX to continue development of the first commercial human lander that will safely carry the next two American astronauts to the lunar surface. At least one of those astronauts will make…
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Yusaku Maezawa, founder of the online Japanese clothing company Zozo, hopes to be flying to the moon sometime in 2023. This will be the first civilian lunar mission #dearMoon on a starship from Elon Musk Space X factory. If all goes according to plan, Maezawa will be also the first non-American to orbit the moon. …
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After a magnificent launch Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley docked succesfully at the ISS after a 19-hour journey. The pair of astronauts docked to the space station’s Harmony module at 10:16 a.m. EDT Sunday as the microgravity laboratory flew 262 miles above the border northern China and Mongolia. Behnken and Hurley, the first astronauts to fly…
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NASA and SpaceX have cleared the Demo-2 mission for Saturday’s launch attempt, scheduled for 3:22 p.m. EDT. Mission managers now have to take weather into account; the forecast shows a strong possibility weather conditions won’t allow a launch. Bad weather scrubbed Wednesday’s attempt to launch the mission, the first launch of astronauts on an American rocket from…
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Musk’s SpaceX, Bezos‘ Blue Origin and Dynetics will be competing to design and build the next lunar landing vehicle for the Artemis mission in 2024. NASA has named three privately owned companies to develop lunar landers that will carry astronauts to the moon’s surface in 2024—and beyond. The three teams, which include Blue Origin, Space…
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