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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
The Beresheet lander would have been the first private lander on the Moon and the first lunar soft-landing by Israel. Instead, engine failures caused it to crash. Continue reading Israel’s Lunar Lander Has Crashed on the Moon
Chang’e 4 mission leads released landing footage and panoramic pictures on Friday. Continue reading China Releases Gorgeous New Footage of the Far Side of the Moon