Boeing wants to make one of the Artemis program lunar landers that will take humans to the surface of the moon. The aerospace company has submitted a proposal to NASA for an integrated Human Lander System (HLS), which it says will be designed to reach the moon in the "fewest steps" possible. NASA has been accepting proposals from private space corporations and is expected to choose at least two of them by January next year for development.
NASA intends to send humans to the moon in an Orion capsule atop an SLS rocket. After the capsule docks with the Lunar Gateway, a space station the agency will place in the lunar orbit, the astronauts would transfer to a lander that would take them to the moon itself. Boeing says the HLS can either dock with the Gateway or dock directly with Orion to take astronauts straight to the lunar surface.
Many things are taking place:
Space Drones Could Fly Around The Moon Via 'Smart Gloves'
The rise of artificial intelligence, machine learning and other buzzwords about smart computers means it's very possible that a small drone could do a lot of work ahead of human exploration.
The future of moon missions – should NASA land there in 2024 as it hopes – could very well include a small astronaut crew directing a veritable army of machines that leap, crawl and fly around the neighborhood. The robots could crawl into lunar caves or easily soar above mountains, looking at terrain too tricky for humans to navigate safely.
Apollo collection curator on what Neil Armstrong took to the moon | New Scientist
All I knew was that I wanted to work at either the Smithsonian Institution or National Geographic . It is a bit surreal to me that I ended up at the Smithsonian and published a book with National Geographic , but it was not exactly an accident.
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I spend half of my time researching and writing and the other half developing exhibits, overseeing artefact collection and giving lectures.
Asteroid size of bus zips by Earth closer than the Moon ‘hours’ after NASA spots it
An asteroid the size of a double-decker bus has skimmed perilously close to Earth – and NASA almost missed it.
The space rock cruised past at speeds of 19,000 mph, passing three times closer to our planet than the distance from Earth to the Moon.
Terrifyingly, NASA admitted the flyby over the weekend wasn’t picked up by its asteroid-tracking radars until it was too late to act.
The rock was only spotted a day before it rocketed past our planet, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Why Mars Base Tech Should Be Tested on the Moon First | Space
WASHINGTON — The coming generation of moon explorers should consider using lunar habitats as a test bed for future Mars missions , said a representative from the French space agency.
"There's a long road leading to sustainability, but there are opportunities for technology transfer," Beauvois said here in his technology presentation on Oct. 23 at the International Astronautical Congress . "A good moon program is a good Mars program. If you think of the space program as a road map, it can be coherent, and it is pretty beneficial to do this."
This Is Why You Can Now See The Moon During The Day
Now through October 21—Last Quarter Moon—is a great time to look for a daytime moon. This photo was ... [+] taken at the Beket Ata in western Kazakhstan.
At the time of writing, the moon is visible during the day. How can that be? Last weekend was the "Hunter's Moon" and yet this week, if you look to the west in the morning, a big moon is visible in a blue sky.
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The moon rises in the east and sets in the west just like everything else in the night sky. That's because Earth is rotating from east to west. However, the moon is actually orbiting in the opposite direction, so from west to east. Look at the moon for a few nights in a row and you'll notice that it's at a slightly more easterly position in the sky each night as it waxes towards being a full moon, or wanes towards being a 0% illuminated new moon.
Evolutionary AI inspires Ph.D.
Microchips, equation-decorated whiteboards and NASA coffee cups are all spread across Warrant Technologies' Thinker Labs, which recently opened in Fountain Square Mall in downtown Bloomington.
The creative space is occupied by Derek Whitley, a fifth year Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University. Whitley is pursuing dual doctoral degrees in complex systems at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering and cognitive science in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences .
Happening on Twitter
Boeing's lunar lander pitch promises 'fastest path' to the moon https://t.co/hcHt5AOwxC https://t.co/dRKyOYPgjA engadget (from Global) Wed Nov 06 06:37:03 +0000 2019
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