Tag: artemis
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50 years after Viking landed on Mars, Lockheed Martin plans for next steps to Red Planet
Fifty years ago Monday, NASA launched what became the first successful Mars lander, starting a race to land people on the Red Planet. NASA hopes to have humans walking on the Martian surface soon, possibly as early as the 2030s. What started on July 20, 1976, with the first successful landing on another planet, kick-started…
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We should all take our own personal moonshots | Paul J. Batura
NASA’s Artemis II is scheduled to splashdown on Friday in the Pacific Ocean just off the coast of San Diego. By the time its 10-day journey around the moon is complete, crew members are expected to have flown more than 685,000 miles. Calculated in Southwest Rapid Rewards points, the four astronauts will have each earned…
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Moon mission could launch April 1 — but can Colorado land aerospace growth?
In two weeks, NASA could send its first crewed mission to the moon in 53 years. Rolling back out to the pad at Cape Kennedy, the 322-foot Artemis II rocket is a bit shorter than the Saturn V ship that carried three astronauts around the moon in 1968. The new mission, which will loop the…
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Moon mission could launch April 1 — but can Colorado land aerospace growth?
In two weeks, NASA could send its first crewed mission to the moon in 53 years. Rolling back out to the pad at Cape Kennedy, the 322-foot Artemis II rocket is a bit shorter than the Saturn V ship that carried three astronauts around the moon in 1968. The new mission, which will loop the…
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Former ISS astronaut and educator Barbara Morgan talks space education in Colorado Springs
Former NASA astronaut and Teacher In Space Barbara Morgan told educators at the Space Symposium last week that increasing the time, resources and creativity given to science education is key to building the next generation of astronauts. “If we didn’t have high quality teachers and students in great classrooms getting high quality education, none of…