As part of a larger prize pool of USD 45,000 for the South Pole Safety Challenge: Lunar Rescue System, NASA is focused on safety as it prepares for the Artemis mission set to launch in September 2026.

initiated rover testing in October and completed the first round of testing in December inside the Active Response Gravity Offload System (ARGOS) test facility. Lunar surface gravity is one-sixth ...

The challenge, "South Pole Safety: Designing the NASA Lunar Rescue System," was announced on November 14 and accepts entries until January 23, 2025. It awards $45,000 to at least three winners ...

This is because the rescue ... Space Launch System (SLS) booster rocket for the Orion CM-003 space capsule for Artemis II (which is expected to take astronauts on the first lunar flyby mission ...

The Artemis Accords lay out the framework for collaborating nations as we enter the next era of lunar exploration and ... affirm the importance of the Rescue and Return Agreement opened in 1968 ...

Meanwhile, exactly ten years after the first launch of a test crew module, assembly has begun on the human-rated launch ...

NASA is preparing for its exciting Artemis missions, where astronauts will explore the moon’s south pole using advanced spacesuits and rovers. To support these missions, NASA recently tested three new ...

Today Intuitive Machines, Inc. (Nasdaq: LUNR, LUNRW) (“Intuitive Machines”) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK, Euronext: NOKIA) announced ...

Apollo astronauts set up mirror arrays, or "retroreflectors," on the moon to accurately reflect laser light beamed at them ...

The University of Central Florida’s Lunar Vulkan Imaging and Spectroscopy Explorer (Lunar-VISE) payload is hitching a ride ...