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NASA has selected three scientific investigations intended to address challenges of living on the Moon, including whether underground caves could shelter astronauts from radiation, micrometeorites and extreme temperature swings. Separately, industry and research leaders discussed the technologies and near-term steps needed to make a lunar base viable.
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NASA has selected three scientific investigations intended to address challenges of living on the Moon, including whether underground caves could shelter astronauts from radiation, micrometeorites and extreme temperature swings. Separately, industry and research leaders discussed the technologies and near-term steps needed to make a lunar base viable.
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The International Astronautical Congress in Antalya is examining NASA’s Artemis II results and lunar data, the security of large satellite constellations, and the growing overlap between commercial space activity and national interests. Other discussions include Türkiye’s Moon mission, crew autonomy, European plans and space manufacturing.
NASA is offering countries that have signed the Artemis Accords opportunities to participate in its plans for a lunar base and a proposed space academy. The offer links international participation in the agency’s lunar ambitions with a potential forum for space education and cooperation.
NASA has selected a Planetary Science Institute-led proposal to examine whether an underground cave extends beyond the opening of the Marius lunar pit. The investigation will assess a feature that could be relevant to identifying future lunar base sites; the available report does not specify the mission’s timeline or methods.
SpaceX is working to ready historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for Starship, with the rocket’s first liftoff from Florida potentially only months away. The effort would bring the company’s largest launch vehicle to a new site at the center.
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Hamilton’s software work was critical to the first lunar landing and helped establish software engineering as a discipline. NASA and MIT announced her death at 90, honoring a computer science pioneer whose work supported Apollo and the first human journeys to the moon.
On Oct. 7, 2002, NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on STS-112. The mission contributed to building the backbone of the International Space Station, advancing the orbital outpost’s assembly through the shuttle program.
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