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Artemis II: Aerospace’s Successful Launch Legacy Expands with NASA’s Mega Moon Rocket

As a trusted partner in supporting NASA’s Moon to Mars objectives, The Aerospace Corporation is contributing launch systems expertise to Artemis that has been honed over decades of advancing the natio...

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Lunar Legwork: Aerospace Research Contributions Will Inform Future Artemis Moonwalks

Aerospace’s contributions to EVA research are paving the way for safe, sustainable space exploration on the Moon, Mars and beyond.

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Aerospace Engineer Braves the Arctic to Support the Next Chapter of Space Exploration

Analog missions conducted in extreme Earth environments that mirror the environments of other worlds are transforming spaceflight risk into exploration readiness.

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LunaNet: Crafting the Navigation and Connectivity Framework for Lunar Exploration's Next Era

Aerospace’s contributions to LunaNet are paving the way for a transformative era of connectivity, navigation and scientific discovery beyond Earth.

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Reaching New Heights: 20 Years of Aerospace Support to the NASA Engineering and Safety Center

Through its participation in NASA’s Technical Discipline Teams, The Aerospace Corporation continues to provide critical independent expertise to ensure the safety, sustainability, and success of NASA’...

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Returning to the Moon: The Next Chapter of Space Exploration

Present-day efforts to return to the Moon aren’t motivated by nostalgia; they represent the beginning of a sustained human presence, economy, and operations in cislunar space, paving the way for futur...

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Novel Workshop Spotlights Need for In-Space Rescue Capabilities

The Aerospace Corporation and RAND recently sponsored and co-hosted the first U.S. Space Rescue Workshop, bringing government, industry, and private space organizations together to advance the topic o...

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Framing the Future Commercial Human Spaceflight Environment

Aerospace supports the FAA in understanding how common best safety practices among well-established transportation sectors can be applied to commercial human spaceflight.

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Project Phantom: Furthering Space Exploration with Virtual and Augmented Reality

The Aerospace Corporation is investigating the potential for VR and AR technology to assist with space operations and change the way humans explore the solar system.

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Living on Mars: Aerospace Crew Accelerates Human Space Exploration Knowledge

Over a two-week mission, six experts worked and lived in an immersive, Mars-like environment, demonstrating the corporation’s drive to evolve its expertise and innovation to meet future needs.

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Mission Ready: First All-Aerospace Mars Analog Crew is a Go

Aerospace’s six-member crew will embark on a two-week analog mission at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) to test new technologies that could help shape the future of human space exploration.

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Artemis I: NASA’s Mission Back to the Moon Takes Flight

The Artemis program aims to return astronauts to the lunar surface by 2025, making way for eventually expanding human space exploration to Mars.

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