Lunar Scientific Payloads For Commercial Moon Landings Being Selected, Developed By NASA
12 Demonstration Scientific Payloads Selected To Be Carried By Commercial Landers As Early As End Of 2019; Experiments Will Be Developed By NASA Facilities Including Ames Research Center And Johnson Space Center; Outside Proposals For Lunar Surface Instrument And Technology Payloads Have Due Date Of 27 February: Nine Companies Selected As Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Will Compete To Provide Delivery; NASA Plans Regular Landings Leading To Human Moon Missions By 2020s
Credits: NASA, Moon Express, Lockheed Martin
On Slopes Of Mauna Loa, 6-Person International Crew Of Hawaii Space Exploration Analog And Simulation Habitat Prepares For First HI-SEAS Simulated Lunar Mission From 20 February To 6 Mar; Habitat Is Located At 19°36′09″N, 155°29′14″W And Altitude Of 2460 m; 11-meter Geodesic Dome Has Usable Volume Of 384 Cubic Meters; Project PoSSUM Astronaut Candidate Shawna Pandya Serves As Ground Support
On 14 February NASA Hosts 
Construction Of US$10B Space Launch System Continues Since January Throughout Government Shutdown; Top Half Of First Core Stage Is Assembled In Vertical Stacking Cell At NASA Michoud Assembly Facility In New Orleans; Manufacture And Checkout Of 10 Solid Rocket Booster Segments Is Completed At Northrop Grumman In Utah; SLS Will Produce 8.8 Million Pounds Of Thrust, More Than Saturn V; Uncrewed Orion Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1) Scheduled To Orbit Moon In 2020; Second Core Stage Beginning Construction At MAF; EM-2 Projected For 2022 Will Carry Crew Of 4, Potentially Including First Woman To Orbit Moon