Alan Bean (1932-2018)
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 […]
Lunar Missions
Google Lunar X Prize Contest Ends Early; No Winner
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 […]
John Young (1930-2018)
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 […]
Japan’s Team Hakuto Delays Lunar Launch
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]