Congratulations to @Int_Machines! Opening the moon to commercial exploration!!
Your order was delivered… to the Moon! 📦
@Int_Machines' uncrewed lunar lander landed at 6:23pm ET (2323 UTC), bringing NASA science to the Moon's surface. These instruments will prepare us for future human exploration of the Moon under #Artemis.
Tonight our friends at @astrobotic and @ulalaunch launch to the Moon! Go Vulcan. Go Centaur. Go Peregrine!
It's time! Tune in NOW as we begin the live launch webcast of the #VulcanRocket #Cert1 flight test. NASA anchors the start of the broadcast and ULA will host at L-minus 25 minutes.
bit.ly/vulcan_cert1
Kudos to ispace for transparency. Having been in charge of landing software for Mars missions, I can understand how this type of error made it in to they system, and how hard they can be to find in test. Sharing these lessons helps us all.
ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=46…
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Fixed it.
Honored to be on this journey with @NASA to land astronauts on the Moon — this time to stay. Together, we’ll be solving the boil-off problem and making LOX-LH2 a storable propellant combination, pushing forward the state of the art for all deep space missions. #Artemis #MoonToMars blueorigin.com/news/nasa-sel…
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Today at 2PM ET is a NASA Moon to Mars Architecture webinar for U.S. Industry and Academia, where NASA will discuss how you can engage with its architecture. Sign up here: nasaevents.webex.com/webappn…
An amazing day. After over 5 years of effort across @blueorigin and our National Team, I’m thrilled to be a part of the team building this audacious lander in partnership with @NASA for Artemis V.
We selected @BlueOrigin to develop the human landing system for the #Artemis V mission. This component for deep space transportation will help us in our goal of sending astronauts to the surface of the Moon and returning them home safely: go.nasa.gov/3Mn3QQU
ALT Illustration of a proposed Blue Origin spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. The spacecraft is white and stands tall with four landing struts. The top segment has a blue NASA emblem on it. Astronauts in white spacesuits are seen working on the lunar surface. A crescent blue Earth is in the background of space. Credit: Blue Origin
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Today at 10:30 AM ET, we're announcing a second human landing system provider for #Artemis, that will develop the transportation system to take astronauts from @NASA_Gateway to the lunar surface on our #Artemis V mission. Tune in to nasa.gov/live.
ALT An artists rendering of an astronaut taking the first step on the Moon off of an unseen human landing system.
Friday. Here we go.
Soon, we'll announce the company selected to develop the landing system for the #Artemis V Moon mission, which will take astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface and back. Tune in Friday, May 19 at 10am ET (1400 UTC): go.nasa.gov/42T3sk4
ALT An artist’s concept of a suited Artemis astronaut looking out of a Moon lander hatch across the lunar surface, the Lunar Terrain Vehicle, and other surface elements.
Tune in now. Lander currently in communications blackout on far side of Moon and ready to autonomously start descent burn. Should be exciting! Go #HAKUTO_R !
1 hour until our HAKUTO-R M1 scheduled landing on the Moon!
Historic live coverage of our landing event has begun. Watch here: youtube.com/live/CpR1UUnix3g
#ispace #HAKUTO_R #lunarquest
First ever commercial lunar landing - tomorrow. Coverage starts 8:20 PDT.
Our HAKUTO-R Program Mission 1 lunar landing live stream coverage is scheduled to open Tuesday, April 25, 15:20 (UTC)/11:20 (EST) at the earliest.
Use the live stream link below to watch our landing event from anywhere!
youtube.com/live/CpR1UUnix3g
#ispace #HAKUTO_R #lunarquest
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6 days until our HAKUTO-R M1 scheduled landing on the Moon!
Landing event livestream coverage will begin at the link below approximately 1 hour prior to landing, which is scheduled to take place on April 25, 16:40 (UTC)/12:40 (EST) at the earliest. (1/3)
youtube.com/live/CpR1UUnix3g
Less than 30 minutes to go. Congratulations to the @SpaceX team for getting to today. Check out the flight test video. Awesome. Godspeed Starship.
Watch Starship’s first integrated flight test → spacex.com/launches nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1yNGaNXwd…
Congrats to the BE-7 team for completing another test firing this past week at NASA MSFC. Love seeing that engine make fire. BE-7 is at the core of all we do - high performing and deep throttling, using propellants we can ultimately harvest on the Moon. lnkd.in/gEds8T8a
Congratulations to @ac_charania! I had the privilege to work with him at @blueorigin and there is no one else like him in the industry - wicked smart, surreptitiously funny, a lover of movies, and just true individual. Best of luck.
A.C. Charania has been named as our agency's chief technologist. He will lead technological innovation and investments across our six mission directorates. Learn more about Charania's career and welcome him to our agency: nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-…
ALT Headshot of A.C. Charania