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The moon is getting smaller, which causes wrinkles in its surface and moonquakes, according to a new study sponsored by NASA. Time Magazine reports: As the moon’s interior cools, it shrinks, which causes its hard surface to crack and form fault lines, … Continue reading NASA Says the Moon Is Shrinking and Experiencing ‘Moonquakes’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Jeff Bezos, chairman of Amazon and founder of Blue Origin, unveiled his space company’s lunar lander for the first time on Thursday. “This vehicle is going to the moon,” Bezos said during an invite-only pr… Continue reading Jeff Bezos Unveils Lunar Lander To Take Astronauts To the Moon By 2024
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine has congratulated the team which sent the first privately-funded mission into lunar orbit — even though it crashed into the surface of the moon. Its final photo was taken Thursday just 7.5 kilometers above the surfac… Continue reading Privately-Funded Moon Mission Will Try Again. ‘Lunar Library’ May Be On The Moon
Some bittersweet news today as we get word that Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft unfortunately crashed shortly before touchdown on the Moon. According to telemetry received from the spacecraft right up until the final moments, the main engine failed to start during a critical braking burn which would have slowed the craft …read more
Continue reading Israel’s Moon Lander Crashed, and That’s OK
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: A small spacecraft that has captured the imagination and excitement of people in Israel and around the world appears to have crashed on the moon (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative… Continue reading Moon Landing By Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Appears To End In Crash
The Beresheet lander would have been the first private lander on the Moon and the first lunar soft-landing by Israel. Instead, engine failures caused it to crash. Continue reading Israel’s Lunar Lander Has Crashed on the Moon
As you might expect from one of our most illustrious alumni, [Caleb Kraft] is a rather creative fellow. Over the years he’s created some absolutely phenomenal projects using CNC routers, 3D printers, laser cutters, and all the other cool toys the modern hacker has access to. But for his latest …read more
Continue reading [Caleb Kraft] Brings us the Moon, on a Budget
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