Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Marshall Space Flight Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Among all the challenges of voyaging to and successfully landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil and rock samples cannot be underestimated.
Posted January 8, 2025
NASA Centers & Facilities
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Johnson Space Center
Missions
NASA has selected Adam Schlesinger as manager for CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services). Schlesinger previously served as the Gateway Program habitation and logistics outpost project lead engineer at Johnson Space Center.
Posted January 6, 2025
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Earth's Magnetic Field
Earth's Moon
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Magnetosphere
Marshall Space Flight Center
Science & Research
The Sun
A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images of the magnetic field that shields Earth from solar radiation. The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager, or LEXI, instrument is one of 10 payloads aboard the next lunar delivery through NASA’s CLPS (Commercial […]
Posted January 3, 2025
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Marshall Space Flight Center
Apollo astronauts set up mirror arrays, or “retroreflectors,” on the Moon to accurately reflect laser light beamed at them from Earth with minimal scattering or diffusion. Retroreflectors are mirrors that reflect the incoming light back in the same incoming direction.
Posted January 2, 2025
Artemis
Venturi Astrolab’s FLEX, Intuitive Machines’ Moon RACER, and Lunar Outpost’s Eagle lunar terrain vehicle – three commercially owned and developed LTVs (Lunar Terrain Vehicle) – are pictured at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in this photo from Nov. 21, 2024.
Posted December 23, 2024
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Marshall Space Flight Center
The Moon may look like barren rock, but it’s actually covered in a layer of gravel, pebbles, and dust collectively known as “lunar regolith.” During the Apollo Moon missions, astronauts learned firsthand that the fine, powdery dust – electromagnetically charged due to constant bombardment by solar and cosmic particles – is extremely abrasive and cl
Posted December 20, 2024
Space Launch System (SLS)
Artemis
Artemis 2
Humans in Space
Kennedy Space Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
Michoud Assembly Facility
NASA has taken a big step forward in how engineers will assemble and stack future SLS (Space Launch System) rockets for Artemis Moon missions inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The VAB’s High Bay 2 has been outfitted with new tooling to facilitate the vertical integration of […]
Posted December 19, 2024
Johnson Space Center
Artemis
Gateway Space Station
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
People of Johnson
NASA has selected Carlos Garcia-Galan as deputy manager for the Gateway Program. Garcia-Galan previously served as manager of the Orion Program’s European Service Module Integration Office at Glenn Research Center.
Posted December 19, 2024
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
NASA continues to advance its campaign to explore more of the Moon than ever before, awarding Firefly Aerospace $179 million to deliver six experiments to the lunar surface. This fourth task order for Firefly will target landing in the Gruithuisen Domes on the near side of the Moon in 2028. As part of the agency’s […]
Posted December 18, 2024
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Marshall Space Flight Center
Earth’s nearest neighboring body in the solar system is its Moon, yet to date humans have physically explored just 5% of its surface.
Posted December 18, 2024
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