Rock Hopper Travel Agency

16/05/2024

🚀✨ Gateway Assemble! 🌕🛰️ Together with our international and industry partners, we're achieving the unprecedented—constructing humanity’s first space station in lunar orbit. As Gateway expands, module by module, our capacity to explore and unravel the secrets of deep space will grow alongside it. https://go.nasa.gov/3wBmiBE

04/10/2023

In the first partnership between an Italian luxury fashion house and a commercial space company, Prada’s engineers are working alongside Axiom Space to help design spacesuits for NASA’s Artemis III lunar mission planned for 2025.
Learn more at https://tinyurl.com/6mpuestc.

19/09/2023

Bacteria found in the deliciously fizzy drink might help astronauts create oxygen someday.

11/09/2023

Loral O'Hara is launching to the International Space Station this week! Watch on http://nasa.gov/live.

📺 Monday
4pm: Soyuz MS-24 Crew training for launch b-roll

📺 Tuesday
4pm: Soyuz MS-24 Spacecraft rollout b-roll

📺 Friday
11:44am: Launch 🚀
2pm: Rendezvous and docking
4:45pm: Hatch opening and welcoming remarks
9pm: Replay of Soyuz MS-24 launch

03/09/2023

We don't know the identities of the 'Galactic 03' crew yet.

03/09/2023

At some point in life, everyone has had a teacher. Teachers are a special group of individuals who nurture minds and ensure that we are equipped to be successful in our personal and professional lives.

10/08/2023

Kelly Latimer is the world's first commercial spaceship female pilot - and she's flying to space and back today with Virgin Galactic. Safe flight, Kelly!
Details: https://tinyurl.com/mty2ua46

31/07/2023

When astronauts return to the Moon they will be bringing along a new generation of spacesuits, designed to withstand the harsh conditions of the lunar surface. But in keeping their human occupants safe and comfortable, these suits might also become a fertile environment for harmful microbial life .....

03/05/2023

To break through the Earth's atmosphere and travel to space, astronauts must travel very fast. An essential part of human spaceflight training is experiencing and familiarizing astronauts with the physical feeling of g-forces – the rapid acceleration and heavy pull of gravity on a human’s body.&

05/04/2023

A "ring of fire" solar eclipse passes over the US in October, then next year the US has its last total eclipse until 2044. Find your viewing spot.

04/04/2023

We’ll start with concrete made out of lunar soil, and we’ll probably 3D print the road.

03/04/2023

The next humans going to the Moon. Huge risks, huge commitment, eternal benefits for all. What a crew!

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Canadian Space Agency

18/03/2023

It’s hoped that the power source will allow astronauts to spend longer stints on the lunar surface.

15/03/2023

Join us live from Space Center Houston's Moon 2 Mars Festival for a look at Axiom Space's next-generation spacesuit. When astronauts return to the Moon for t...

19/01/2023

“Webb is bringing us closer and closer to a new understanding of Earth-like worlds outside our solar system, and the mission is only just getting started.” The first planet confirmed by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is small and rocky. Observations this summer will tell us more! https://go.nasa.gov/3Hefcpg

19/01/2023

Artemis III will be humanity’s return to the lunar surface and NASA will make history by sending the first humans to the lunar South Pole region.

19/01/2023

19/01/2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/14/china-nasa-moon-space/

NASA is hopeful that a new international coalition will help propel its return to the moon.

19/01/2023

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/us-japan-sign-space-collaboration-agreement-at-nasa-headquarters

During an event hosted by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy at the agency’s Headquarters in Washington Friday, representatives from the United States and Japan gathered to sign an agreement that builds on a long history of collaboration in space exploration between...

17/01/2023

https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/bodyinspace?mibextid=Zxz2cZ

For over 50 years, NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) has studied what happens to the human body in space.

17/01/2023

17/01/2023

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/lro-lunar-pits-comfortable

NASA-funded scientists have discovered shaded locations within pits on the Moon that always hover around a comfortable 63 F (about 17 C) using data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft and computer modeling. The pits, and caves to which they may lead, would make thermally stab...

17/01/2023

A newly identified lunar pit where the temperature is always about 63 F could be the perfect place for NASA’s future moon base.

17/01/2023

https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-features/is-space-the-final-frontier-for-luxury-brands-1235459061/

NASA’s Artemis moon mission has kicked off a new era of space exploration ripe with possibilities for purveyors of high-end goods and services.

08/01/2023

It's likely not enough to be a showstopper for crewed lunar exploration.

30/12/2022

Is this why so many astronauts are from Ohio?

L6 Lagrange Point

It's difficult to orbit L6 stably due to gravitational perturbation from Akron and Toledo.