Griffin's upcoming debut will be the second lunar mission for Astrobotic. The company's smaller Peregrine moon lander ...

After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...

There would be no wind to push the flag off of a flagpole and become visible. But the engineers at NASA devised a solution, ...

Duke took the flags with him to the Moon on Apollo 16 in 1972. “We are grateful to General Duke for this generous ...

Nasa says that the space car needs to be able to handle the "extreme conditions" of the Moon's South Pole. It's a treacherous part of the Moon where temperatures can range from 54C in the day ...

Artemis III would land astronauts on the south pole of the moon, and likely won’t happen until mid-2027, NASA said ... “Not just to put down a flag, but who’s going to dominate the ...

The flag’s fluttering effect will be achieved ... Chang’e 7 will also advance lunar research, including studying the moon’s south pole, a key area of global interest for future exploration ...

In the early 1990s, Anne Platoff, then working with Hernandez Engineering Inc. in Houston, Texas put together a NASA contractor report titled, "Where No Flag Has Gone Before: Political and ...

Rather, the moon is wet, abundant with water that is largely stored away in the form of ice in the forbidding craters at its poles. That is why when NASA next sends astronauts to the moon’s ...

Griffin was originally supposed to deliver NASA's ice-hunting VIPER rover to ... U.S. technology demonstrations at the lunar south pole." FLIP (which stands for Flex Lunar Innovation Platform ...