Tag: nasa
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Former Fort Carson soldier selected to Artemis III crew
When the Artemis II splashed down off the coast of San Diego on April 10, its crewmembers were hailed as the farthest-traveled humans from Earth in history, having bested by more than 4,000 miles Apollo 13’s record. Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen traveled 252,756 miles from their home planet and returned…
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Space startup in Colorado working its own Project Hail Mary to save NASA telescope
On the edge of the main road connecting Denver to Boulder, a space startup’s manufacturing facility in Broomfield has been racing against the clock for a once-in-a-lifetime mission. In a span of eight months, Katalyst Space Technologies has taken a napkin sketch of a concept and built a robotic spacecraft called Link to save the…
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NASA airplane in Colorado Springs mapping the West for critical mineral resources
A NASA airplane designed around the U-2 spy plane of Cold War fame is calling Colorado Springs home, flying from the Colorado Springs Airport as the U.S. Geologic Survey and NASA partner to survey Western states for critical minerals. The airplane is part of the ongoing effort to find minerals like titanium, nickel and aluminum,…
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Aerospace research company chooses Fremont County for expansion
Narravity Inc., an aerospace research and technology firm, announced Thursday that it will expand into Fremont County. The company specializes in designing and testing orbital laboratory equipment and the tools needed to conduct experiments in microgravity. It will use money from the state’s Rural Jump-Start program, meant to support “economic development and job creation in…
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Colorado company ready to build the lunar base, provide ‘lunar mobility’
Original concepts for a moon base ranged from believable to outlandish. Following the success of Artemis II, which launched four astronauts around the moon over the course of 10 days, NASA is looking ahead as it attempts to take another giant leap. The goal? A permanent base on the moon. But what might that look…
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Five big things from Space Symposium, just in case you missed them
The 41st Space Symposium has concluded after drawing more than 300 exhibitors and an overall attendance of 11,000 during its six days at The Broadmoor. Put on by the Space Foundation, a nonprofit space advocacy group headquartered in Colorado Springs, the annual Symposium is the world’s largest gathering of commercial, military and governmental figures in…
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Mars Sample Return mission in jeopardy, Lockheed Martin thinks it can still be done
When it landed on Mars in 2021, the Perseverance rover set out to collect roughly 30 samples of soil from the red planet. The grand space strategy at the time would see the samples retrieved by another spacecraft and brought back to earth later. Originally meant to be an autonomous retrieval, led by local aerospace…
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NASA, NOAA leaders stress need to study sun, improve space weather forecasts
While the nation celebrates the safe return of the astronauts who flew by the moon, there’s another celestial body scientists yearn to know more about for future missions: the sun. “As we travel farther and farther in space, as we get to the moon, as we go to Mars, our ability to understand how the…
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NASA to build permanent base on moon, test space-based nuclear power in bid to meet Trump’s space policy
In the 1960s, the United States won the space race decisively by planting the American flag firmly on the moon. Over the next five years, 12 NASA astronauts walked on the moon before the Apollo program, one of the most expensive and scientifically intensive programs undertaken by the U.S., was ultimately canceled. NASA’s priorities shifted…
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Space Symposium returns for 41st edition with focus on Artemis program, successful moon mission
This week, leaders from around the globe are gathering in Colorado Springs for the annual Space Symposium with a renewed focus on moon missions following the return of the Artemis II astronauts. The splashdown came as NASA and private industry focus on deep space exploration, thanks in no small part to NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman.…