NASA is offering Rs 26.5 lakh prize for best design of a loo on Moon
June 26, 2020 20:45 ISTUnder its Artemis mission, NASA is planning to set up a base on the moon by 2024, for which it is seeking design innovations for a lunar loo.
Under its Artemis mission, NASA is planning to set up a base on the moon by 2024, for which it is seeking design innovations for a lunar loo.
South Africa has partnered with NASA to host a deep-space ground station, which will support human spaceflight missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. With this collaboration, South Africa became the fourth country after the US, Spain and Australia to host a deep space ground station.
In further boost to its Artemis Moon missions which will land the first woman and next man on the lunar surface by 2024, the US space agency on Saturday awarded a $1.79 billion contract to Aerojet Rocketdyne of Sacramento, California, to manufacture 18 additional Space Launch System (SLS) rocket engines to support future missions to the Moon.
NASA's ambitious 2024 return-to-moon mission has been delayed due to the global coronavirus outbreak. According to a Reuters report, NASA's Administrator Jim Bridenstine said the National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA) was shutting down the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and the Stennis Space Center in nearby Hancock County, Mississippi, due to a rise in coronavirus cases in the region. NASA chief on Thursday ordered the temporary closure of two rocket production facilities after an employee tested positive for the respiratory illness, Reuters reported.
After an unsuccessful bid two months ago, India may attempt another soft landing on the Moon by next year-end, probably in November, sources in ISRO said on Thursday. The Indian Space Research Organisation had constituted a high-level committee, headed by S Somanath, Director of Thiruvanathapuram-based Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, the lead centre responsible for all launch vehicle programmes of ISRO, to prepare a report on the proposed Chandrayaan-3.
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