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Russia has reentered the 21st century race for the Moon with the launch of its first lunar mission in 47 years. Luna 25 lifted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s far eastern Amur Region atop a Soyuz-2.1b rocket on August 10, 2023, 23:10 GMT…. Continue reading Russia launches first Moon mission after 47-year hiatus
Russia has successfully launched Luna 25, the country’s first lunar lander in 47 years. From a report: The uncrewed spacecraft lifted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur Oblast, Russia. Hitching a ride aboard a Soyuz-2 Fregat rocket, Luna 25 took… Continue reading Russia’s Luna 25 Mission Launches To the Moon
Russia hopes to launch its first successful lunar landing mission for nearly 50 years, with a long-delayed takeoff from the far east of the country scheduled for early on Friday morning that the Kremlin aims to tout as a new achievement in space explor… Continue reading Russia Hopes For Its First Successful Lunar Landing Mission in Nearly 50 Years
The last time that a human set foot on the Moon, it was December 1972 — when the crew of the Apollo 17 mission spent a few days on the …read more Continue reading Humanity’s Return to the Moon and the Prospect of South Pole Moon Bases
Long-time Slashdot reader William Robinson shares a report from the BBC: India’s space agency has released the first images of the Moon taken by the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, which entered lunar orbit on Saturday. The images show craters on lunar surfa… Continue reading Chandrayaan-3: Historic India Moon Mission Sends New Photos of Lunar Surface
In a scary first, scientists have discovered a 2021 solar eruption so large that it was, for the first time, detected simultaneously on Earth, the Moon, and Mars, highlighting the radiation dangers posed by such events to deep space travelers.Continue … Continue reading Supersized solar eruption detected on Earth, the Moon, and Mars
Not satisfied with sending rovers to other worlds one at a time, NASA is sending three miniature robots to the Moon in 2024 as part of the Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) project. The goal is to see how such explorers can… Continue reading NASA to set a CADRE of autonomous rovers loose on the Moon
“NASA took a significant step Tuesday toward allowing humans on the moon to ‘live off the land,'” reports the Washington Post.
NASA awarded several contracts “to build landing pads, roads and habitats on the lunar surface, use nuclear power for energy… Continue reading NASA Funds Moon Projects to Help Astronauts ‘Live off the Land’
With the aim of allowing astronauts to live off the land as much as possible when they return to the Moon, NASA has awarded Blue Origin a US$35-million Tipping Point contract to develop the company’s Blue Alchemist process to make solar cells out of lu… Continue reading Blue Alchemist to make solar cells on the Moon using moondust
According to a study by Astrostrom for ESA, future Moon bases could be powered by a giant space butterfly called the Greater Earth Lunar Power Station (GEO-LPS) covered with solar panels made from lunar materials beaming microwaves to the surface.Conti… Continue reading Solar space butterfly could power lunar outposts around the clock