The Lunar Gold Rush: How Moon Mining Could Work
An interesting infographic by 911Metallurgist on the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) website breaks down how three crucial elements found on the […]
Lunar Missions
NASA Signs Contracts For Lunar Payload Deliveries, Announces Moon Landing Sites
NASA has announced that it has signed contracts to deliver payloads to three different Lunar landing sites in 2020 and 2021. The contracts were awarded to: […]
NASA Orders First Lunar Gateway Segment. What’s Next?
Per Ars Technica‘s Eric Berger: NASA has chosen its first commercial partner for a proposed space station, known as the Lunar Gateway, to be built near […]
Trump Launches “Lunar Gold Rush” – Is It A Good Idea?
Gareth Dorrian, a post-doctoral research fellow in space science at the University of Birmingham in England weighs in on recent comments by US President Donald […]
Russian Scientists Discover How Water (and Silver) Forms On The Moon
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) reports that researchers from the Higher School of Economics and the Space Research Institute of the […]
NASA Urged To Return US Astronauts To The Moon
United States Vice President Mike Pence has called for American astronauts to return to the Moon within five years. Mr. Pence is calling for an […]
India’s Chandrayaan-2 Moon Landing Project Detailed
India Today goes into deep detail to explain the Indian Space Research Organisation‘s Chandrayaan-2 mission to the Moon, projected to launch in early 2019. The […]
Russia’s RSC Energia To Offer Moon Flights
Russia’s Energia Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC Energia) is ready to offer tickets for a Lunar tour aboard the Soyuz spacecraft. The round-trip flights will cost […]
Lunar Gateway: Shortcut To Mars?
From The Guardian: NASA has revealed plans to return to the Moon and has asked European scientists and industry leaders to join the agency in a […]
China to Launch Robot Mission to Moon in December
China’s space agency this week shared new details about its upcoming Chang’e-4 mission, which aims to launch two robots to the far side of the […]