Lockheed Martin's concept of a reusable, crewed lunar lander would take astronauts from a moon-orbiting space station down to the lunar surface

New moon lander would be a big step up from Apollo-era 'modules'

Oct. 10, 2018

From NBC News: Before humans venture to Mars, NASA wants to send astronauts back to the moon 鈥� and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has developed a new lunar lander concept designed to shuttle space flyers between a moon-orbiting space station and the cratered surface below. Unveiled Oct. 3 at an...

An artist's rendition of NASA's Orion spacecraft as well as its proposed Deep Space Gateway, a crew-tended spaceport in lunar orbit that could support surface operations on the moon. Credit: NASA

Shooting for the Moon-This Time to Stay

Jan. 31, 2018

From Scientific American: MOFFETT FIELD, Calif.鈥擡arth鈥檚 nearest neighbor, the moon, is far from being a 鈥渂een there, done that鈥� world in space science and exploration. That鈥檚 the message from scientists and engineers at NASA鈥檚 Lunar Science for Landed Missions Workshop, recently held here at the space agency鈥檚 Ames Research Center...

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