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 Moon. The new mission, named after the mythical moon goddess Chang’e, is the fourth in…
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NASA is partnering with six US-based companies to develop a new generation of space exploration technology that could see lunar landers return to the Moon in the near future. The venture could take place as soon as 2020. The US…
NASA has announced that Alan Bean has died. He was 86 years old. Astronaut Bean was the fourth human to walk on the Moon, reaching the Lunar surface in November 1969, four months after the initial landing of Apollo XI….
The highly-publicized Google Lunar X Prize competition, with a goal of landing an unmanned rover on the Moon and sending back high-resolution images, has been called off by its backers two months ahead of its scheduled completion. In a statement…
John Young, one of only twelve humans to have walked on the Moon, has died. A native of San Francisco, Calif., Astronaut Young was 87 years old. He was the only astronaut to fly into space with three of NASA’s…
The Japanese team competing in an international lunar probe contest said Wednesday (8 November) that it will postpone the launch date of its moon rover from 28 December to sometime between January and March of 2018. The decision by Team…
Korea’s JoongAng Daily opines that the nation’s leaders may be playing pure politics with a proposed government-financed mission to the Moon, which includes a tight timeline for a 2020 Lunar landing. Choi Joon-Ho, industry news editor of the JoongAng Ilbo, reports: The…
China and Russia are set to sign a milestone agreement on joint space exploration from 2018 to 2022, according to the official People’s Daily online news service. The deal is expected to be signed this October and will bring significant benefits…
Speaking at the Starmus Festival in Trondheim, Norway, the physicist Stephen Hawking has called for space-faring nations to return astronauts to the Moon by 2020. “To leave Earth demands a concerted global approach,” Prof. Hawking told festival attendees. “Everyone should…
Gene Cernan, the last human (to date) to walk on the Moon, died on January 16. He was 82 years old. As a member of the Apollo 17 crew in December 1972 (along with Harrison Schmitt), Cernan became the last…
