Collaborate Disseminate
Scientists have identified what appears to be a small chunk of the moon that is tracking the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. From a report: The asteroid, named Kamo’oalewa, was discovered in 2016 but until now relatively little has been known about it. N… Continue reading Near-Earth Asteroid is a Fragment From the Moon, Say Scientists
A curious space rock has just gotten curiouser. The asteroid Kamo`oalewa has an odd orbit that makes it almost a mini-moon of Earth – and now it may really earn that title, as new observations show that it could in fact be a fragment of the Moon.Contin… Continue reading Odd asteroid seems to be a broken piece of the Moon
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced today in a press conference that the next US crewed Moon landing mission has been pushed back to 2025. The setback is due to COVID-19, lawsuits, and budget shortfalls, but the agency remains committed to a plan … Continue reading NASA pushes back plans for crewed lunar landing to 2025
“Humanity will return to the lunar surface in 2024 as part of the Artemis program,” writes the Auto Evolution site.
“However, before NASA begins shuttling people to our natural satellite, it has to build a network there that will go beyond Earth’s low… Continue reading The Moon Will Soon Have Its Own Internet
Last December, the Chinese lunar lander Chang’e-5 returned to Earth with the first rocks and dust collected from the Moon since 1976. Researchers studying these precious samples have used advanced scientific instruments to determine their age and concl… Continue reading Youngest Moon rocks ever found shake up understanding of lunar past
Honda has laid out new technologies it plans to pursue in the coming decades. Building on current areas of expertise, the company will look to develop an eVTOL for inter-city transport, a robot that will act as an avatar for users to perform tasks remo… Continue reading Honda sets its sights on an eVTOL, telepresence robot and space tech
Masten Space Systems is working on a way to protect future lunar landers from the regolith thrown up by their engines as they land, by injecting alumina ceramic particles into the rocket engine plume to glue together lunar dust and create their own lan… Continue reading FAST lets lunar landers make their own landing pads pre-touchdown
If there are two things that are essential to human life, they’re water and oxygen – neither of which are easily available on the moon. Thanks to a new technique, though, astronauts may someday be able to harvest those elements from lunar soil.Continue… Continue reading Future astronauts may be able to pull water and oxygen from lunar soil
A new mathematical study suggests that the abandoned Ascent Stage of the Apollo 11 mission’s Eagle Lunar Module (LM), long believed to have crashed on the Moon in 1969, may be circling our largest natural satellite in a stable orbit.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading The Apollo 11 Ascent Stage may still be orbiting the Moon
The lunar rovers of Apollo 15, 16 and 17 parked American automotive culture on the lunar surface, and expanded the scientific range of the missions’ astronaut explorers. From a report: Dave Scott was not about to pass by an interesting rock without sto… Continue reading 50 Years Ago, NASA Put a Car on the Moon