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India’s space program wants to go where no nation has gone before — to the south side of the moon. And once it gets there, it will study the potential for mining a source of waste-free nuclear energy that co… Continue reading The Quest To Find Nuclear Fuel On the Moon
The case is the latest of many contentious battles between NASA and private citizens over ownership of lunar material. Continue reading A Woman Is Suing NASA Over a Vial of Moon Dust From Neil Armstrong
SpaceX will reportedly no longer be sending a pair of space tourists to circle the moon this year. The flight was scheduled for late 2018, but has been delayed, according to The Wall Street Journal. The reason for the delay is unclear. CNET reports: Th… Continue reading SpaceX Delays Plans To Send Space Tourists To Circle Moon
China launched a relay satellite early on Monday designed to establish a communication link between earth and a planned lunar probe that will explore the dark side of the moon, the official Xinhua news agency said. From a report: Citing the China Natio… Continue reading China Launches Satellite To Explore Dark Side of Moon
“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too”
When President Kennedy gave his famous speech in September 1962, the art of creating liquid-fueled rocket engines of any significant size was still in its relative infancy. All the rocketry and power …read more
Continue reading Retrotechtacular: The Saturn Propulsion System
RIP Resource Prospector. Continue reading NASA’s Cancelled Lunar Rover Reflects An Identity Crisis in US Space
Thanks to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, high-resolution imagery of our closest neighboring world is more accessible than ever. Continue reading NASA Just Dropped Its Most Detailed Video Tour of the Moon Yet
According to Reuters, the moon will get its first mobile phone network next year, enabling high-definition streaming from the landscape back to earth. “Vodafone Germany, network equipment maker Nokia and carmaker Audi said on Tuesday they were working … Continue reading Nokia, Vodafone To Bring 4G To the Moon
Stephanie Pappas reports via Live Science how you can watch Wednesday’s “Super Blue Blood Moon” eclipse: The eclipse will occur in the wee hours of the morning on Wednesday, Jan. 31, when the full moon will pass through the Earth’s shadow. Viewers on E… Continue reading How To Watch the ‘Super Blue Blood Moon’ Lunar Eclipse
In the coming decades, mankind will walk on the moon once again. Right now, plans are being formulated for space stations orbiting around Lagrange points, surveys of lava tubes are being conducted, and slowly but surely plans are being formed to build the hardware that will become a small scientific outpost on our closest celestial neighbor.
This has all happened before, of course. In the early days of the Apollo program, there were plans to launch two Saturn V rockets for every moon landing, one topped with a command module and three astronauts, the other one containing an unmanned ‘LM …read more
Continue reading Space Escape: Flying A Chair To Lunar Orbit