The Apollo lunar missions worked by using a spacecraft in two parts. The Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM) traveled together from the launch pad at Cape Kennedy to lunar orbit ...

Astronauts are already practicing living aboard the first space station around the moon by using virtual reality. NASA's budding moon-dwellers are exploring the yet-to-be-built Lunar Gateway space ...

Engineers are stress-testing the core module for Gateway, a lunar space station designed to provide astronauts with a place to live, conduct scientific research, and prepare for moonwalks. Credit: ...

NASA has shared footage showing astronauts using VR headsets to learn what it will be like aboard the Lunar Gateway space station. The Lunar Gateway will orbit the moon and be used mainly for getting ...

NASA is no longer just going back to the Moon - it’s planning to stay there. The Lunar Gateway will be a small space station orbiting the Moon, serving as a research hub, transfer point, and safe ...

Earlier this month, NASA released a set of photos highlighting a newly arrived module for Gateway, a small space station that the agency aims to launch to lunar orbit in 2027. That module is HALO ...

NASA is making significant progress on the Gateway program, with the HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) module entering its final phase of outfitting and testing. The module, which will serve as ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An early, full-scale mockup of the astronaut accommodations developed for a small space station ...

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst visited Thales Alenia Space in Turin recently to test out and provide feedback on accommodations for the next human outpost in space, the lunar Gateway. As the name ...

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Soon enough, humanity will place a new space station in, well, space. It will be our species' third operational one, after the International Space Station (ISS) and the Tiangong Space Station (TSS), ...

One of the first things people want to know before taking a trip is what the weather will be like wherever they are headed. For Artemis astronauts traveling on missions to the Moon, two space weather ...