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Imagine: you spent years training for a sojourn to the Moon, flew there on top of a Saturn V rocket as part of Apollo 16, to ultimately land on the …read more Continue reading Lunar Landing Lunacy: Charles Duke Confronted With Reality-Deniers
Everyone likes a good lunar landing simulator, and [Dominic Doty] wrote a fun take on the idea: your goal is to write an autopilot controller to manage the landing. Try …read more Continue reading Lunar Lander Game Asks You to Write a Simple Autopilot
With the recent string of lunar landing attempts, it’s interesting to consider how much things have changed – or stayed the same – since the first soft landing attempts in …read more Continue reading The Lunar Odyssey: Moon Landings From the 1960s to Today’s Attempts
The recent news that Russia’s Luna 25 Moon lander had made an unexpected lithobraking detour into the Moon’s surface, rather than the expected soft touchdown was met by a variety …read more Continue reading Luna 25’s Demise: Raising Fundamental Questions About Russia’s Space Program
It’s been a while since we heard from Dmitry Rogozin, the always-entertaining former director of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency. Not content with sending mixed messages about the future of …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 14, 2023
Given the number of spacecraft (both crewed and uncrewed) that touched down on the Moon during the Space Race it’s sometimes hard to imagine why today, with all our modern …read more Continue reading Moon Mission Failures, or Why Are Lunar Landings So Hard?
It’s often said that the wheels of government turn slowly, and perhaps nowhere is this on better display than at NASA. While it seems like every week we hear about …read more Continue reading NASA Continues Slow And Steady Pace Towards Moon
If everything goes according to plan, China will soon become the third country behind the United States and the Soviet Union to successfully return a sample of lunar material. Their Chang’e 5 mission, which was designed to collect 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of soil and rock from the Moon’s surface, …read more
Continue reading China’s Moon Mission Was About More than Rocks
This month will mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission that brought to a successful conclusion the challenge laid down by President Kennedy only eight years earlier. Three men went to the Moon, two walked on it, and they all came back safely, in a dramatic eight-day display …read more
Continue reading Ask Hackaday: What Are Your Apollo Memories?
Israel’s Beresheet lander crashed on Thursday due to an engine failure. Continue reading This Is the Stunning Picture Israel’s Lunar Lander Took Right Before It Crashed