posted 06-10-2022 12:07 AM               

Space Center Houston celebrates Artemis with new exhibit, Moon2Mars festival

NASA's Artemis program has inspired a new exhibit and annual festival at the agency's Texas visitor center.

Space Center Houston debuted its aptly-titled "Artemis" exhibit on Thursday (June 9), the same day that it launched "Moon2Mars," a one-day business conference and three-day public celebration highlighting emerging ideas and technologies that will transport humans to the moon, Mars and beyond.

posted 10-08-2024 01:30 PM               

Gateway gift: Northrop Grumman donates lunar-orbit hab for Space Center Houston display

An early, full-scale mockup of the astronaut accommodations developed for a small space station orbiting the moon has arrived at Space Center Houston to go on public display.

Delivered by flatbed truck and carefully moved inside by forklifts and trolleys on Tuesday (Oct. 6), the two-piece module sometimes only had mere inches of clearance, and that was after Space Center Center trimmed back tree limbs and tore out a window-lined wall to create a path.

Northrop Grumman donated the "ground prototype" of its cislunar habitat that it built in 2019. The 14.5-foot-wide by 21-foot-long (4.4 by 6.4 m) module was used by NASA to evaluate the its configuration as compared to other companies' concepts under the second Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships, or NextSTEP-2, solicitation.

posted 11-11-2024 12:21 PM               

Open Gateway: Step into mock lunar orbit habitat at Space Center Houston

The public can now step into the future of lunar exploration by entering an early mockup for astronaut accommodations around the moon.

The "ground prototype" for what evolved into part of NASA's lunar orbit Gateway is now open to visitors at Space Center Houston in Texas.