NASA is officially gearing up for a return to the Moon. And this time the space agency is testing out some sweet new technology to send with its next legion of lunar astronauts. Specifically, they’re ...

GPS might be common down here on Earth where humanity has come to take it for granted. But on the Moon, astronauts have no such blessed technology to rely on, so they need something else to help them ...

30 years ago today, a NASA astronaut tested a backpack designed to save someone floating through space uncontrollably. Spacewalking is beautiful, yet risky. When an astronaut steps outside the ...

While you might take a water bottle and a few granola bars on your next hiking trip, astronauts walking on the moon need to be a bit more prepared. That’s why NASA has developed a new high-tech ...

NASA is testing a high-tech backpack containing technology that could be used by astronauts to create highly detailed maps of the lunar surface. Michael Zanetti, a NASA planetary scientist at NASA’s ...

Nasa is testing out a new high-tech backpack made for astronauts on the Moon. The backpack has technology that creates a 3D map of the surface as they walk. It's called the Kinematic Navigation and ...

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