Moon lander preps for the lunar surface | Space photo of the day for May 6, 2026
Blue Origin’s MK1 moon lander has passed its tests in the vacuum chamber as NASA continues to develop the hardware needed to return astronauts to the moon.
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‘SOL Shogunate’ is a samurai space opera set on the moon, but with an aerospace engineer making sure it’s ‘getting the science right’
Chaos Manufacturing CEO Guy Costantini and aerospace engineer Taylore McClurg tell us about the process of creating a believable but striking lunar adventure.
NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Students in Florida
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA astronaut Chris Williams calls down to mission controllers during Crew Medical Officer training while inside the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory module. Credit: NASA/Jessica Meir Students in Florida…
NASA Research Shows Early Life Relied on Rare Metal
5 min read NASA Research Shows Early Life Relied on Rare Metal Timeline of Earth’s history in billions of years. The new study indicates that life used molybdenum as far back as 3.3 to 3.7 billion years ago, long before…
Building on America’s 65-Year Legacy of Human Spaceflight
America’s first human spaceflight begins as the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) space vehicle, with astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. aboard, launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida on May 5, 1961. NASA On the morning of May 5, 1961, the Mercury-Redstone 3 launch…