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People celebrate at the Indian Space Research Organisation’s mission control following the successful landing of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft. Credit: ISRO India has successfully soft-landed a robotic spacecraft on the Moon, becoming only the fourth country to do so, and the first to touchdown at the south pole region. Continue reading Untitled

The installation of RS-25 engine E2059 at the base of the core stage for NASA’s second Space Launch System rocket. Credit: NASA Technicians have installed the first engine on the core stage of the second Space Launch System rocket, which is tasked with sending the first people to the Moon in more than a half century. Continue reading Untitled

The samples returned from asteroid Bennu are safely contained in the sample return capsule following its parachute-assisted touchdown in the Utah desert. Credit: NASA After a seven-year, 3.86-billion-mile odyssey, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission successfully delivered to Earth samples from asteroid Bennu. Continue reading Untitled

The Starliner spacecraft for the Crew Flight Test is being readied at Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Boeing / John Grant Two newly discovered issues have prompted NASA and Boeing to postpone the launch of Starliner’s Crew Flight Test, which was expected in July. Continue reading Untitled

NASA and Canada assign astronauts to the #Artemis 2 Moon mission, schedule for late 2024. #WeAreGoing #ForAllHumanity

The Artemis 2 astronaut crew. Top row from left to right: Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Jeremy Hanson. Bottom: Reid Wiseman. Credit: NASA The Artemis 2 astronauts were announced in Houston, marking the first time in the 21st century a human crew has been assigned to fly a mission to the Moon. (more…) “”

The second Space Launch System core stage has been fully integrated. It'll be used for the crewed #Artemis 2 mission to the Moon in late 2024.

The engine section for the Artemis 2 Space Launch System was joined with the rest of the core stage on March 17. Credit: NASA NASA has finished fully integrating its second Space Launch System core stage, which will be used to send the Artemis 2 mission with four astronauts to the Moon late next year. (more…) “”

SpaceX and @NASA are studying the potential to reboost the #Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit using #CrewDragon.

A view of the Hubble Space Telescope following its final servicing mission in 2009. NASA is looking at the possibility of using a SpaceX Crew Dragon to potentially boost the observatory’s orbit later this decade. Credit: NASA NASA has signed a contract with SpaceX to study the possibility of reboosting the aging Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit using the company’s Crew Dragon…