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Illustration of Blue Origin's concept for a commercial lunar lander. Credit: Blue Origin
New Companies Commit to Commercial Lunar Payload Services Initiative
November 25, 2019 // by

Expansion provides a wide array of approaches to landing science and technology on the Moon. 

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The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment, seen here in 2011, after it was installed at the International Space Station. NASA is conducting a series of spacewalks to install a new cooling system. Credit: NASA/Ron Garan
Ambitious Spacewalks Aim to Repair Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
November 19, 2019 // by

Astronauts will work to add new cooling system to key physics experiment at ISS.

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Commander Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr. examines the TV camera of Surveyor 3 prior to detaching it and returning it, and other pieces of the lander, to Earth for analysis. Credit: NASA
This Month in NASA History: Lightning Strikes Apollo
November 12, 2019 // by

Team solves glitches to save NASA’s second mission to land on the Moon.

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A VIPER engineering model is driven over slopes, textures and soils that simulate the lunar environment to test its mobility systems. Credit: NASA/Johnson Space Center
New Rover Will Examine Water Ice on the Moon
October 30, 2019 // by

VIPER mission to the Moon’s south pole will quantify precious resources in shaded craters.

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An artist's impression of ESA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab
ESA Spacecraft Ready to Orbit the Sun
October 25, 2019 // by

Solar Orbiter’s suite of instruments will unlock secrets of the solar wind, magnetic field.

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The 2020 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Competition is soliciting undergraduate and graduate teams to develop new concepts that leverage innovations for NASA’s Artemis program and future human missions to Mars. Credit: NIA
Competition Asks Student Teams to Solve Moon to Mars Challenge
October 21, 2019 // by

NASA sponsored contest focuses on breaking through frozen soil to harvest water ice.

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This global view of Jupiter's moon, Io, was obtained during the tenth orbit of Jupiter by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
This Month in NASA History: Galileo Begins Journey to Jupiter
October 17, 2019 // by

Spacecraft made many important discoveries in 2.8-billion-mile mission.

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The SEAL instrument, which stands for Surface and Exosphere Alterations by Landers, was built in 1998 as an engineering model for Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft, Nozomi.
Instrument Once Meant to Support Mars Mission Now Bound for the Moon
September 24, 2019 // by

SEAL experiment will examine how lunar regolith absorbs and releases volatiles.

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Earthrise viewed from lunar orbit during the Apollo 11. The Space Task Group suggested a Moon base as one goal of a post-Apollo space program. Credit: NASA
This Month in NASA History: Space Task Group’s Ambitious Plan
September 11, 2019 // by

Independent panel suggests national goals of crewed mission to Mars, Moon base, massive space station.

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