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NASA Announces Contract for Space Station to Orbit Moon

Christian Davenport, The Washington Post | Friday May 24, 2019

NASA has been scrambling to pull off what many think is a near-impossible feat.

NASA's First-of-Kind Tests Look to Manage Drones in Cities

Associated Press | Friday May 24, 2019

NASA has launched the final stage of a four-year effort to develop a national traffic management system for drones.

NASA Unveils Schedule for 'Artemis' 2024 Moon Mission

Agence France-Presse | Friday May 24, 2019

NASA on Thursday unveiled the calendar for the "Artemis" program that will return astronauts to the Moon for the first time in half a century.

NASA Executive Quits Weeks After Appointment To Lead 2024 Moon Landing Initiative

World News | Reuters | Friday May 24, 2019

A top NASA executive hired in April to guide strategy for returning astronauts to the moon by 2024 has resigned, the space agency said on Thursday, the culmination of internal strife and dwindling congressional support for the lunar initiative.

Additional Funding For NASA's Moon Mission Rejected: Report

Science | Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday May 23, 2019

NASA announced plans to return astronauts to the Moon within five years after Vice President Mike Pence said in March that the nation's 2028 lunar touchdown plan was "just not good enough".

Can't Afford To Go To Mars? NASA Can Send Your Name Instead

Science | ANI | Wednesday May 22, 2019

If you feel a trip to Mars is not possible in this lifetime, NASA is giving you an opportunity to send your name to the Red Planet instead.

NASA Invites Public to Submit Their Names to Be Displayed on Next Mars Rover

Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday May 22, 2019

NASA has invited public to submit their names to fly abroad the next rover to Red Planet in 2020.

NASA's Mars 2020 Rover To Have Names Etched On Chips, Submissions Open

Science | Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday May 22, 2019

Although it will be years before the first humans set foot on Mars, the US space agency has invited public to submit their names to fly abroad the next rover to Red Planet in 2020.

Most Distant Space Object Looks Like Man In Meditation

Science | Indo-Asian News Service | Sunday May 19, 2019

NASAs New Horizons mission team has published the first image of the farthest world ever explored -- a planetary building block and Kuiper Belt object clicked during New Years 2019 flyby of Ultima Thule which looks like a human being in deep meditation.

After The Moon, People On Mars By 2033...Or 2060

Science | Agence France-Presse | Saturday May 18, 2019

On December 11, 2017, US President Donald Trump signed a directive ordering NASA to prepare to return astronauts to the Moon "followed by human missions to Mars and other destinations."

NASA Selects 11 US Firms to Build Human Lunar Landers

Indo-Asian News Service | Friday May 17, 2019

NASA has selected 11 companies including Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, Elon Musk's SpaceX to develop prototypes of human landers for its Artemis lunar exploration programme.

NASA Spots Israeli Spacecraft's Crash Site on Moon

Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday May 16, 2019

NASA's Moon-orbiting spacecraft has spotted the impact site of the Israeli Beresheet spacecraft.

Israeli Spacecraft Beresheet, Which Crashed On Moon, Found By NASA

Science | Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday May 16, 2019

NASA's Moon orbiting spacecraft has spotted the impact site of the Israeli Beresheet spacecraft on a region of the Moon called "Sea of Serenity" where it crash landed on April 11.

ISRO Says Chandrayaan 2 Moon Mission Will Carry NASA Experiment

Press Trust of India | Thursday May 16, 2019

India's second Moon mission that is planned for a July launch will have 13 payloads and one passive experiment from American space agency NASA.

NASA To Get A Free Ride To The Moon On India's Chandrayaan-2

India News | Written by Pallava Bagla | Thursday May 16, 2019

NASA will get a free ride to the Moon on-board India's second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 that is expected to lift off in July. India has accommodated an instrument from American space agency NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will not charge any ticket for carrying the foreign instrument all the way to the Moon.