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“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
schwit1 quotes Popular Mechanics: A lot of the rocks we have on Earth are pretty old, but none of them were around when our planet was first formed. The Earth itself is around 4.5 billion years old, and the oldest rocks we’ve ever found are a little ov… Continue reading Earth’s Oldest Known Rock Was Found On the Moon
According to ancient astronaut theorists, the lunar eclipse this weekend had an unexpected visitor. Right around the time of totality, a meteor crashed into the moon, and it was visible from Earth.
Meteors crash into the Earth and Moon all the time, although this usually happens either over the ocean (70% of the Earth) where we can’t see it, on the far side of the moon (~50% of the Moon) where we can’t see it, or on the sunlit side of the Moon (another, different 50%), where we can’t see it. These meteors range from the size of a grain …read more
Continue reading Amateur Astronomers Spot Meteorite Impact During Lunar Eclipse
“The giant impact of a rocky planet was required to deliver the unique composition of life-essential elements to Earth.” Continue reading Life On Earth Was Seeded by Massive Collision That Formed the Moon