Practicing for Safe Landings on the Moon and Beyond

In this Aug. 27, 2026, image, an Alta-X drone flies an advanced guidance and navigation system known as the Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE) experiment near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston developed SPLICE, which successfully completed simulated lunar descent and […]

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Sep 24, 2026, 4:29 PM

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NASA Aeronautics reported: Practicing for Safe Landings on the Moon and Beyond
In this Aug. 27, 2026, image, an Alta-X drone flies an advanced guidance and navigation system known as the Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE) experiment near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston developed SPLICE, which successfully completed simulated lunar descent and […]
Categories: Armstrong Flight Research Center, Science in the Air
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Source country: United States
Published (UTC): 2026-09-24T16:29:19.000Z
Source: NASA Aeronautics
Original source: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/practicing-for-safe-landings-on-the-moon-and-beyond/

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