The effort is based on the prospect that lunar resources can be mined and processed into construction materials at a lower cost than launching them from Earth.
NASA has learned a number of lessons that have helped shape an evolving Moon-to-Mars Architecture strategy that underpins the agency’s Artemis program.
Test personnel at Stennis Space Center have successfully conducted the fourth in a second round of 12 ground test firings of the upgraded RS-25 rocket engine.
NASA has announced research grants and cooperative agreements focused on studies into how plant and animal biological systems will respond to lunar regolith.
NASA’s IG is calling for the agency to execute a more aggressive contract transition strategy as it works to reduce the cost of future SLS rocket production.
NASA faces mounting urgency to control the cost of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket development and production, an agency inspector general’s audit says.
Part of NASA’s Artemis strategy includes a lunar south pole Artemis Base Camp, a concept that may end up consisting of more than one camp, experts say.
