📆 2026:
• 1st #BlueMoon putting the Endurance #robotic lander at the Shackleton Crater with two #NASA payloads
📆 2027:
• 2nd Blue Moon lander delivers NASA’s #VIPER rover to the lunar South Pole
• #Astronauts on the #Orion capsule practice rendezvous and docking tests
📆 2028:
• Two Blue Moon landers deliver Lunar Terrain Vehicles built by #LunarOutpost and #Astrolab
• The first #US astronauts return to the lunar surface
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Repercussions of New Glenn’s Explosion Still Coming Into Focus
Posted: May 29, 2026 6:21 pm ET | Last Updated: May 30, 2026 8:43 am ET | Less than a day after Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded on the launch pad during a pre-launch test on May 28, 2026, repercussions are still being weighed. Government and commercial customers are all depending on this new heavy-lift rocket, especially NASA, which needs it to land cargo and crews on the Moon beginning this year.
Odyssey Space Research partner, Astrolab, Selected by NASA to Provide Lunar Rover for Artemis Astronauts Return to the Moon
HOUSTON, May 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Astrolab announced that NASA selected the company's CLV-1 lunar rover to support astronaut exploration of the lunar surface as part of the Artemis campaign u...
NASA picks Blue Origin, other space firms for moon missions
May 26 : NASA awarded contracts to space firms including Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Astrolab to send robotic landers, rovers and drones to support the upcoming lunar exploration missions.The U.S...
NASA outlines nearly $1 billion investment into initial Moon Base missions – Spaceflight Now
NASA chooses Blue Origin to deliver moon buggies
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has won NASA’s nod to deliver crew-carrying rovers to the lunar surface as part of the space agency’s decade-long plan to create a base near the moon’s south pole.
“America is returning to the moon,” NASA Administrator Jared
https://cosmiclog.com/2026/05/26/nasa-chooses-blue-origin-to-deliver-moon-buggies/
#GeekWire #Artemis #Astrolab #BlueOrigin #Drones #FireflyAerospace #LunarOutpost #Moon #Space
NASA chooses Blue Origin to deliver moon buggies
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has won NASA’s nod to deliver crew-carrying rovers to the lunar surface as part of the space agency’s decade-long plan to create a base near the moon’s south p…
Jeff Bezos'
#BlueOrigin space venture wins a
#NASA contract to send two crew-carrying
#moon buggies to the lunar surface, with the first delivery set for as early as 2028. The buggies will be built by
#Astrolab and
#LunarOutpost.
#FireflyAerospace also won a contract to drop off NASA's rocket-powered drones for future
#MoonBase missions.
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/nasa-taps-blue-origin-to-deliver-lunar-rovers-for-moon-base-initiative/ #Space
NASA taps Blue Origin to deliver lunar rovers for Moon Base initiative
Blue Moon lander will carry Astrolab and Lunar Outpost moon buggies, while Firefly will drop off NASA's rocket-powered drones.
Four NASA payloads to fly on Astrolab’s first lunar rover
Astrolab’s first lunar rover will carry four NASA payloads on a mission planned to launch later this year.
Four NASA payloads to fly on Astrolab’s first lunar rover
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=four-nasa-payloads-to-fly-on-astrolabs-first-lunar-rover<p>WASHINGTON — Astrolab’s first lunar rover will carry four NASA payloads on a mission planned to
#washington #payloads #astrolab #lunarFour NASA payloads to fly on Astrolab’s first lunar rover
WASHINGTON — Astrolab’s first lunar rover will carry four NASA payloads on a mission planned to launch later this year.
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#Astrolab is developing a larger rover that can accommodate about 3 cubic meters of payload. The excavating equipment would go under the belly of the rover. It is likely that a #FLEX rover will be on the first #SpaceX #Starship mission planned to fly to the Moon 🌙 in 2027 or 2028
#SpaceMining #ISRU
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