Collaborate Disseminate
We humans are good at a lot of things, but making holes in the ground has to be among our greatest achievements. We’ve gone from grubbing roots with a stick to feeding billions with immense plows pulled by powerful tractors, and from carving simple roads across the land to drilling …read more
Continue reading Extraterrestrial Excavation: Digging Holes on Other Worlds
Today at the fifth meeting of the National Space Council, Vice President Mike Pence said the Trump administration is committed to sending humans back to the Moon by 2024, four years earlier than NASA’s previous target of 2028. The Verge reports: Pence,… Continue reading Mike Pence Tells NASA To Accelerate Human Missions To the Moon ‘By Any Means Necessary’
On February 22nd, a Falcon rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying the Indonesian communications satellite Nusantara Satu. While the satellite was the primary payload for the mission, as is common on the Falcon 9, the rocket had a couple of stowaways. These secondary payloads are generally experiments or …read more
“Scientists are hoping to unlock some of the universe’s mysteries through 50-year-old moon rocks,” reports the New York Daily News — specifically, three samples that spent that half century sealed in airtight canisters.
One Apollo 18 sample from 1972 … Continue reading Sealed Cache of Moon Rocks To Be Opened By NASA
This week The Space Review published an essay by retired aerospace engineer Gerald Black, who worked in the aerospace industry for over 40 years and tested various rocket engines, including the ascent stage engine of the Apollo lunar module.
Last week, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried an Israeli-made spacecraft named Beresheet beyond the grasp of Earth’s gravity and sent it on its way to the surface of the moon. On board Beresheet is a specially designed disc encoded with a 30-million-page… Continue reading Thirty-Million-Page Backup of Humanity Headed To Moon Aboard Israeli Lander
The Beresheet lander will attempt the first private Moon landing on April 11. Continue reading Watch the First Private Moon Lander Ride to Orbit on a SpaceX Rocket
The first privately funded mission to land on the moon took one giant step forward this evening as an Israeli spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. “[I]f the mission is successful, it would make Israel the fourth country to land a spacec… Continue reading Israel Launches Spacecraft To the Moon
A group of researchers discovered that Earth’s atmosphere extends almost twice the distance to the Moon after analyzing data gathered in the 1990s. Continue reading Earth’s Atmosphere Stretches Far Beyond the Moon, Scientists Find
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A team of Israeli scientists is to launch what will be the first privately funded mission to land on the moon this week, sending a spacecraft to collect data from the lunar surface. Named Beresheet… Continue reading Israel To Launch First Privately Funded Moon Mission