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NASA has touted its bold plan to return American astronauts to the moon by 2024 for months. Now we’re starting to get an idea of how much it will cost. From a report: The space agency will need an estimated $20 billion to $30 billion over the next five… Continue reading NASA Estimates It Will Need $20 Billion To $30 Billion For Moon Landing
pgmrdlm shares a report from CBS News: A previously unknown deposit of an unidentified physical substance larger than the size of Hawaii has been discovered beneath the surface of the moon. Scientists at Baylor University published a study detailing th… Continue reading Scientists Discover Previously Unidentified Mass Beneath Surface of the Moon
NASA has greenlit two deep-space mining concepts for further development. The Phase III awards from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program are worth up to US$2 million over a two-year period and will fund a project to develop an… Continue reading NASA backs lunar exploration and asteroid mining technology concepts
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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Continue Reading Huge metallic anomaly detected buried beneath the Moon’s largest crater
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Continue reading Huge metallic anomaly detected buried beneath the Moon's largest crater
When Apollo 11 touched down in the Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969, it was more than a triumph of the human spirit, it was also the story of a cybernetic wonder called the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) that helped the Apollo astronauts s… Continue reading Apollo’s brain: The computer that guided man to the Moon
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has announced that it plans to send the first American unmanned rover to the Moon in July 2021. Under the direction of Robotics Institute director William “Red” Whittaker, the miniature four-wheeled robot will… Continue reading Carnegie Mellon University to send first US robotic rover to the Moon in 2021
Engineers at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have now joined together four fifths of the Space Launch System’s (SLS) core stage. The upcoming super heavy rocket is slated to make its maiden flight in 2020, and will provide the… Continue reading Core stage of NASA’s Space Launch System Moon rocket moves closer to completion
NASA has announced the first three contracts for unmanned lunar landing missions as part of the Artemis program that will see US astronauts returning to the Moon by 2024. Under the space agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), the … Continue reading NASA reveals first three commercial Moon landing contracts
By combining moondust and lasers, Laser Zentrum Hannover (LZH) and the Institute of Space Systems (IRAS) of the Technical University of Braunschweig are experimenting with ways to use 3D printing to build lunar colonies. Slated to fly in 2021… Continue reading Moonrise to bring 3D laser printing to the lunar surface
“NASA has chosen its first commercial partner for a proposed space station, known as the Lunar Gateway, to be built near the Moon,” reports Ars Technica:
On Thursday, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said Maxar Technologies would build the first co… Continue reading NASA Announces First Commercial Partner For A Space Station Orbiting The Moon