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Space Escape: Flying A Chair To Lunar Orbit

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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

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Scientists Think They’ve Discovered Lava Tubes Leading To the Moon’s Polar Ice

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schwit1 quotes ScienceAlert:
Small pits in a large crater on the Moon’s North Pole could be “skylights” leading down to an underground network of lava tubes — tubes holding hidden water on Earth’s nearest neighbour, according to new research. There’s … Continue reading Scientists Think They’ve Discovered Lava Tubes Leading To the Moon’s Polar Ice→

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Living On The Moon: The Challenges

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Invariably when we write about living on Mars, some ask why not go to the Moon instead? It’s much closer and has a generous selection of minerals. But its lack of an atmosphere adds to or exacerbates the problems we’d experience on Mars. Here, therefore, is a fun thought experiment about that age-old dream of living on the Moon.

Inhabiting Lava Tubes

The Moon has even less radiation protection than Mars, having practically no atmosphere. The lack of atmosphere also means that more micrometeorites make it to ground level. One way to handle these issues is to bury structures under …read more

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Happy Space Thanksgiving: How the Food-Stuffed Holiday Went Orbital

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“Just as on Earth, our feelings about Thanksgiving in space weren’t determined by the quality or the appearance of the meal—but by the people we shared it with.” Continue reading Happy Space Thanksgiving: How the Food-Stuffed Holiday Went Orbital→

Spy Tech: Stealing a Moon Probe

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Ever hear of the Soviet Luna program? In the west, it was often called Lunik, if you heard about it at all. Luna was a series of unmanned moon probes launched between 1959 and 1976. There were at least 24 of them, and 15 were successful. Most of the failures were not reported or named. Luna craft have a number of firsts, but the one we are interested in is that it may have been the first space vehicle to be stolen — at least temporarily — in a cold war caper worthy of a James Bond novel.

Around 1960, …read more

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