NASA to preview Artemis II Moon Mission 11:00 EDT . News conference on the science and technology of Artemis II mission starts at 13:00. Artemis II slated for no later than April 2026. The test flight, a launch of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft, will send NASA […]
News conference with the Artemis II astronauts 10:00 EDT.
Registration is due 19 Sep for this online event. LSIC Surface Power Capability Area will host their annual virtual workshop! This year's workshop is entitled "Lunar Power Applications at Varying Scales". Participants will examine applications on the lunar surface for power at low (~1 kW), medium (10s kW), and high […]
Astronaut Scholarship Foundation presents a Live Chat with veteran NASA Astronaut Leland Melvin on Thursday, September 25th at 1:00 PM ET for students in 3rd-12th grades and their educators/parents/guardians. This Live Chat series is presented in the memory of Scott Carpenter, one of the original Mercury Seven Astronauts and a […]
Abstracts due for 2025 LSIC Fall Meeting to be held Nov 5-6 at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta GA, USA
Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the 1st planetarium.
Purpose and Scope This hybrid workshop will feature invited and contributed presentations aimed at studies of returned samples from Bennu (OSIRIS-REx mission) and Ryugu (Hayabusa2 mission), and perspectives on future asteroidal sample return. In the past five years, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx and JAXA’s Hayabusa2 missions have made history by returning the […]
Topic: Lunar Testing
2025 LSIC Fall Meeting will focus on mission-driven technology guiding us to the Moon. Through the years, our community has planned and executed, and now it's time to thrive! This Fall will be valuable to learn directly from core infrastructure technology providers, technologies in the pipeline for future missions, risk […]
2025 LSIC Fall Meeting will focus on mission-driven technology guiding us to the Moon. Through the years, our community has planned and executed, and now it's time to thrive! This Fall will be valuable to learn directly from core infrastructure technology providers, technologies in the pipeline for future missions, risk […]
Nominations for individuals or teams to receive the inaugural prize will be accepted beginning in August through Nov 1, 2025; Prize recipients to be announced on or before July 20, 2026.
David DeVorkin of the National Air and Space Museum discusses the life of George Robert Carruthers, PhD, from DeVorkin's new biography, From the Laboratory to the Moon: The Quiet Genius of George R. Carruthers. Carruthers (1939-2020) invented the gold-plated Far Ultraviolet Camera / Spectrograph that was the 1st astronomical instrument […]
In April 1972, George Robert Carruthers, PhD (1939-2020) visited NASA Manned Space Center in Houston and watched as astronaut John Young positioned a gold-plated far ultraviolet camera / spectrograph on the Moon. The instrument, Carruthers's invention, was the first astronomical observatory on the lunar surface, landing in the Descartes Highlands […]
Webinar for astronomy educators in primary and secondary schools.
Topic: 2025 Recap, 2026 Look Ahead
Entries Due by 11:59 UTC: Contest for youth ages 9-19 in three divisions, Junior, Intermediate and Senior, for storytelling via comic strip or infographic and essay, describing the future of space travel, space propulsion or interplanetary travel. Robert Goddard is called the father of modern rocketry, accomplishing the first flight […]
Coordinating Division: Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology