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Crew-12 carried ESA French astronaut Sophie Adenot, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.
ASAP recommends that NASA adopt a more deliberate, stepwise flight-test cadence for Artemis missions similar to the Apollo program to reduce risk before risking a crewed lunar landing.
The NASA lunar reactor work supports NASA’s broader Moon to Mars architecture, which seeks to establish a sustained human presence on and around the Moon as a stepping stone to sending crews to Mars.
Under the national space policy set by President Trump, NASA is charged with returning astronauts to the Moon, building infrastructure to allow them to remain there, and preparing for human missions to Mars and beyond.
NASA has identified fission surface power as a key technology for maintaining surface operations during long lunar nights and in permanently shadowed regions where solar power is not practical.
A.C. Charania, a Balerion adviser and former senior NASA official, will join Vast’s board.
The Near Space Network is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The NASA–Department of Energy collaboration builds on more than half a century of joint work in space exploration, technology development, and areas related to national security.
By pursuing a lunar surface reactor, NASA and the Department of Energy aim to create a power system that can be adapted for future Mars missions and other deep space activities.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman supports using nuclear power to achieve NASA’s lunar and Mars objectives and views the new NASA–DOE agreement as contributing capabilities for an expanded era of space exploration.
The agreement calls for NASA and the Department of Energy to work together on developing, fueling, authorizing, and readying a fission surface power system for launch and deployment on the lunar surface.
NASA will integrate the fission surface power system with its lunar architecture, including landers, surface systems, and potential commercial partners that may provide additional infrastructure.
Artemis missions use both the Near Space Network and the Deep Space Network under the oversight of NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Program.
Onboard Orion, NASA will fly the Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System (O2O) to test high-bandwidth laser links with real mission data from the crewed flight.
In 2024 NASA selected Intuitive Machines to develop the first set of lunar relay spacecraft for a demonstration planned in conjunction with the Artemis III lunar surface mission.
Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane completed a battery of pre-flight tests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in November.
Researchers re-examined soil returned by NASA's Apollo 11, Apollo 16, and Apollo 17 missions using modern instruments and methods.
HTV-X1 delivered approximately 5,400 kilograms of supplies, scientific experiments, and hardware for NASA and international partners.
The Deep Space Food Challenge is part of NASA’s research and innovation activities supporting human exploration programs including Artemis.
Vast signed an agreement with NASA to hold a private astronaut mission on the International Space Station in the current month.