NASA Couldn’t Get Its Rover to the Moon, So Blue Origin Will Do It Instead

NASA’s water-hunting lunar rover was given a second chance to reach the surface of the Moon. Blue Origin will deliver VIPER to the Moon on an upcoming lunar lander mission, resurrecting the ...
Space.com

VIPER lives! Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will land ice-hunting NASA rover on the moon in 2027

VIPER's long and winding road will now feature a ride to the lunar surface on Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander. VIPER has officially come back from the dead. The NASA moon robot, whose name is short for ...
Futurism

SpaceX Now Causing NASA to Lose Space Race to China, Experts Say

A multibillion-dollar contract between NASA and SpaceX is under scrutiny as the Elon Musk-helmed space company’s plans to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon keep slipping. While NASA’s first ...
Space.com

'I'll be damned if that's the story we write': Acting NASA Administrator Duffy vows not to lose moon race to China

NASA's acting administrator is pushing back against recent claims that the agency is losing ground to China in the race back to the moon. Sean Duffy addressed employees in an internal NASA town hall ...
Orlando Sentinel

NASA selects Blue Origin to take the once-canceled VIPER rover to moon

An expensive lunar rover that once had its moon trip canceled has a ride once again. NASA selected Blue Origin to help get VIPER, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, to the moon by ...
Live Science

How to see the moon, Venus and the bright star Regulus in an ultraclose conjunction tomorrow

One of the best naked-eye stargazing sights of the year is on offer to skywatchers this week — if you can rise before the sun Friday (Sept. 19). Just before sunrise, the crescent moon, the brilliant ...
Los Angeles Times

In a race back to the moon, U.S. and China see a fast-approaching finish line

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Both the U.S. and China seek to establish a lunar base that would test humanity’s ability to live beyond Earth.
The Washington Post

Moon helium deal is biggest purchase of natural resources from space

The feasibility of moon mining is not yet proven, but the future of supercomputing may depend on the ability to extract Helium-3 from the lunar surface. We haven’t mined on the moon yet, but companies ...
WTHR

2 Purdue grads, including Indiana native, selected for NASA's latest astronaut class

Yuri Kubo, 40, was selected from roughly 8,000 other candidates. "I made it through the first round, miraculously made it through the second round, and here we are today," Kubo said. Kubo and the nine ...
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Building Nuclear Power in the U.S. Is Tough. NASA Wants to Do It on the Moon.

Call it a nuclear moonshot: The U.S. aims to deliver a reactor to the lunar surface and beat a push by China and Russia to do the same. In August, NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy directed the ...