NASA offering cash prizes for lunar toilet concepts

NASA’s Artemis mission will (hopefully) take astronauts to the Moon in 2024 … and when those people get there, they’ll need to go to the bathroom. With that in mind, the space agency is now looking to the public for ideas for “moon toilets.”Continue Re… Continue reading NASA offering cash prizes for lunar toilet concepts

Origami-inspired expanding lunar module set for testing in Greenland

With NASA determined to return humans to the Moon in 2024 through its Artemis program, many are turning their attention to the habitats that will house this next generation of explorers. Among them is Danish design duo Sebastian Aristotelis and Karl-Jo… Continue reading Origami-inspired expanding lunar module set for testing in Greenland

Moon Elevator Could Be Sooner Than You Think

The big expense in getting people to orbit or the moon or any other space destination is the cost of escaping the Earth’s gravity. One often-proposed solution involves building a giant space elevator from some point on the Earth to orbit. That sounds great, but the reality is the materials …read more

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Indestructible tardigrades thought to have lived through crash-landing on the Moon

An ambitious but ultimately doomed mission to land the first private spacecraft on the Moon may not be without entirely without scientific consequence. Among the many items onboard Israel’s ill-fated Beresheet lunar lander were thousands and … Continue reading Indestructible tardigrades thought to have lived through crash-landing on the Moon

Project Egress: A Bracket And A Bell Crank For The Latches

Put yourself in [This Old Tony]’s shoes: you get an email out of the blue asking you to take part in making a replica of a 50-year-old spacecraft. Would you believe it? He didn’t, at least not at first, but in the end it proved to be true enough that …read more

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Snoopy Come Home: The Search for Apollo 10

When it comes to the quest for artifacts from the Space Race of the 1960s, few items are more sought after than flown hardware. Oh sure, there have been stories of small samples of the 382 kg of moon rocks and dust that were returned at the cost of something …read more

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Huge metallic anomaly detected buried beneath the Moon's largest crater

The huge South Pole-Aitken basin on the Moon can be seen in this topographical map, as ...

Although it looks like a boring, barren place, the Moon is home to some pretty amazing landmarks. The South Pole-Aitken basin, for example, is the largest impact crater in the solar system, measuring about 2,500 km (1,550 mi) across at its widest point. And now scientists have detected something strange buried under the crater.

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Timeline Book from Apollo 11's Lunar Module rockets to auction

The cover of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Timeline Book – to be auctioned almost 50 ...

On Sunday, July 20, 1969, the first thing ever written by a human while on a celestial body that wasn’t our own planet Earth was jotted onto a page. That page was within a book known as “The Timeline Book,” a book which had, only moments before, sat between two men, who were soon to become household names the world over.

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