NASA plans to rely primarily on industry-provided communications services for missions close to Earth by 2030.
Nanoracks technicians work on the NanoRacks Bishop Airlock inside the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 7, 2020.
Jim Mantovani, left, and A.J. Nick, with Kennedy Space Center's Exploration and Research and Technology programs, unbox a CubeRover at the Florida spaceport on Oct. 9, 2020.
NASA has issued another request to its 14 Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) partners to bid on flying a suite of payloads to the Moon. The request asks partners to fly 10 NASA science investigations and technology demonstrations to a non-polar region of the Moon in 2022.
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc., a vertically integrated aerospace and space travel company, today revealed the cabin interior of its first SpaceshipTwo vehicle, VSS Unity in a virtual event streamed live on YouTube.
