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India took a giant leap in its space program on Monday after its space agency launched a spacecraft that is scheduled to touch down on the Moon in September. From a report: The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), which is India’s equivalent of N… Continue reading With Chandrayaan-2 Launch, India’s ISRO Shoots For the Moon on a Shoe-String Budget
Space engineers have long considered lunar soil as locally available material for building outposts on the Moon, and now ESA researchers are considering it as a means to store energy. The Discovery & Preparation study by the agency and Az… Continue reading Lunar bricks could keep Moon colonists warm and generate electricity
When the Apollo 11 astronauts set foot on the Moon, one of their main tasks was to break out a special tool kit that they used for collecting samples of rock and soil for return to Earth. Now the French company Comex is working under an ESA c… Continue reading ESA updates lunar tool kit for future Moon explorers
Fifty years ago, two men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the surface of the Moon. That’s a very simple sentence to write, but getting to grips with what is almost certainly one of the top five events in the whole of human history – … Continue reading Apollo 11: Fifty years since that One Small Step
There are few moments in history that have ever been recorded in more detail or analyzed as thoroughly as the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. Getting three men to our nearest celestial neighbor and back in one piece took a lot of careful planning, and recording every moment of …read more
Only 12 people have ever set foot on the Moon, so for the rest of us photos and videos will have to suffice. The latest comes from NASA, who has stitched together images taken during the Apollo missions to provide a more expansive look throug… Continue reading NASA celebrates Moon landing with immersive Apollo-era panoramas
“Monday’s Wall Street Journal includes a special Apollo 11 feature,” writes Slashdot reader Outatime in honor of the 50th anniversary since Apollo 11’s Saturn V launched from the Kennedy Space Center. “[O]f particular interest to many Slashdot nerds is… Continue reading Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is planning to launch a rocket to the moon. UPDATE: 2:28: The launch “has been called off for today,” the ISRO posted on Twitter.
But when the re-schedule launch happens, you can watch it live on two YouT… Continue reading India Plans Historic Launch of a Rocket to the Moon
One of the original designers of a pioneering Apollo Moon experiment is leading an effort to create an upgraded version for future lunar landing missions. A team under professor emeritus at the University of Maryland (UMD), Doug Currie are de… Continue reading NASA green lights upgrade of Apollo era lunar laser experiment
You know what planets are. You’re familiar with moons. But what do you get when you cross the two? “Ploonets,” according to astronomers from Australia and Colombia. These weird, hypothetical objects start life as a moon circling a giant plane… Continue reading Hypothetical "ploonets" would blur the lines between planets and moons