Korea’s Moon Program: “Failure To Launch”?
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 […]
Lunar Missions
China, Russia To Join Forces For Manned Moon Missions
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 […]
Stephen Hawking: Return To Moon Would “Elevate Humanity”
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. […]
Gene Cernan (1934-2017)
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 […]
Automaker Audi Planning Mission To Explore The Moon
From GQ Magazine UK, background on German automaker Audi’s plans for a mission to the Moon: Audi has officially gone interplanetary. Well, sort of. This […]
LSI Pledges Financial Support For Return To Moon
Luna Society International has pledged financial support, potentially hundreds of millions of dollars, toward a program to return humans to the Moon in the next decade. Through […]
Japan X Prize Team Successfully Tests Moon Rover
Japan’s Hakuto team, competing for the Google Lunar X Prize, has put its Moon rover prototypes through their paces at the Tottori Sand Dunes on Sept. 27 ahead […]
European Space Agency’s First Lunar Mission Heads Toward Moon, Slowly
KOUROU, French Guiana — More than 30 years after the Apollo astronauts walked on the Moon’s surface, a European space probe has been launched to […]