The Moon is not the kind of place where you want to get lost, but it can get a little tricky trying to retrace your dusty footsteps without a GPS system in place. Thankfully, space engineers may have ...

NASA KNaCK is a new venture for the company, and it is a wearable technology for astronauts that is essentially a lunar backpack that would bring a navigation system for those venturing the Moon. It ...

As future Artemis astronauts explore the moon, a new high-tech backpack will assist their mapping as they step into the unknown. NASA does have high-definition lunar maps of the surface, from orbit, ...

NASA has released images of a backpack-sized sensor it is developing to help astronauts navigate terrain in future expeditions to the Moon. The Kinematic Navigation and Cartography Knapsack (KNaCK) is ...

Follow in the footsteps of Apollo astronauts with a new space-themed backpack that aims to inspire a sense of exploration and transport wearers to the lunar surface. When you purchase through links on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 has developed a backpack-sized sensor to help moon astronauts map their surroundings. The sensor would build a 3D map in real-time to help them navigate uncharted or dark terrain. NASA plans to ...