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Firefly Awarded $112 Million NASA Contract for Payload Delivery to the Far Side of the Moon

Render of Blue Ghost Mission 2, Firefly's Two-Stage Lander selected by NASA. Credits: Firefly Aerospace

Firefly Aerospace was selected by NASA to deliver multiple payloads with its Blue Ghost Spacecraft into Lunar Orbit and on the far side of the Moon in 2026

Edoardo Giammarino
15/03/2023

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Will The Mars Sample Return Mission Discover Alien Life?

Mars Sample Return mission overview. Credits: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech

Returning samples from the Red Planet has never been attempted before, but NASA and ESA are gonna try it with the "Mars Sample Return" program

Filippo Zamprogna
09/03/2023

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A simple and complete Guide on NASA’s Mighty Apollo Capsule

The Apollo 10 Command and Service Modules (CSM) are photographed from the Lunar Module (LM) after CSM/LM separation in lunar orbit. Credits: NASA

The Apollo Capsule was the Spacecraft designed and developed by NASA which aimed to land humans on the Moon and return them safely to Earth. Let's dig into it!

Edoardo Giammarino
08/01/2023

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Robotic exploration: China has great plans

Chang'e 4 landed on the lunar farside, a first for China and the World. The image was taken by the Yutu 2 rover. Image credit: CNSA/CLEP

There are great plans for Chinese robotic exploration. Discover all about them now

Riccardo Dipietro
08/12/2022

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Orion capsule is just one step far from the Moon

This first high-resolution image, taken on the first day of the Artemis I mission, was captured by a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays. The spacecraft was 57,000 miles from Earth when the image was captured, and continues to distance itself from planet Earth as it approaches the Moon and distant retrograde orbit.

On Nov 15, Orion capsule left the Earth on board the SLS rocket. How is the mission going? Let's have a look together!

Federico Coppola
26/11/2022