NASA has declared “wrenches down” on the first completed payload designed for Artemis astronauts to deploy on the Moon’s surface. Engineers working on NASA’s Lunar Environment Monitoring Station, or LEMS, have completed hardware development and testing and the payload is ready for its permanent home near the lunar South Pole. With the hardware complete, LEMS
As NASA prepares for a sustained human presence on the Moon, missions will increasingly require spacecraft that can navigate and communicate without a direct connection to Earth. NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Navigation and Operations Technology Experiment, or CAPSTONE, validated and advanced these capabilities. Designed to test and validate technologies in lunar orbit, CAPSTONE launched
HONOLULU– A Grand Canyon river rafting guide who aspired to become the first American woman to paddle solo across the mid-Pacific completed an unprecedented journey from California to Hawaii. Hundreds of people gathered to cheer on Kelsey Pfendler as she arrived at Honolulu Harbor Friday night in her 21-foot rowboat, Lily, after nearly a month