The ability of NASA’s first robotic Moon rover to drive off the Astrobotic Griffin lunar lander and onto the lunar surface was recently the subject of yet another successful round of rigorous tests carried out by VIPER, which stands for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover. Called a departure, this hours-long activity is one of the […]
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NASA will make another attempt one month from now to test-fire its monstrous Space Launch System rocket after its first attempt was stopped, the office said Friday night. The rocket’s 212-foot-tall core stage will attempt to fire its four engines for eight minutes at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The attempt is the last […]
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Blue Origin, the spaceflight organization established by Jeff Bezos, needs to go where the private area has never gone. The organization has its sights set on the moon — where just governments have landed. Bezos, the tycoon organizer of Amazon (AMZN) and long-lasting space enthusiast, started selling his arrangements to change that last month by […]
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