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Team Indus To Send Seven Experiments To The Moon Including Three From India
Mar 17, 2017 (IANS)
Seven teams, including three from India, have qualified for the country's first private moon mission in December, space technology start-up TeamIndus said on We...
Sun Devils working for a chance to induce photosynthesis on our lunar neighbor
Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)
Unlocking humanity's future as an interplanetary species is no simple feat. But students at Arizona State University and the Central University of Tamil Nadu in...
The Second Moon Race
Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)
At first glance it's easy to dismiss China's efforts as being little more than what the US and Russia achieved decades ago. And while the pace of China's manned...
Under Trump, the Moon regains interest as possible destination
Mar 12, 2017 (AFP)
Dismissed by former US president Barack Obama as a place explorers had already seen, the Moon has once again gained interest as a potential destination under Do...
NASA finds missing LRO, Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiters
Mar 10, 2017 (UPI)
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said it has located its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft after disappearing for years. JPL sai...
India's Moon Mission on 2018 Target, Says ISRO Chief
Mar 03, 2017 (Sputnik)
ISRO boss AS Kiran Kumar says the second lunar mission Chandrayaan 2 is making good progress; it is scheduled for launch next year. But critics question why sho...
An Epic Lunar Experience Lands at Space Center Houston
Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)
Space Center Houston is the first of four stops of a new exhibit featuring the Apollo 11 command module, which will leave the Smithsonian on a national tour for...
India Takes Russian Help to Analyze Chemical Composition of Lunar Surface
Feb 17, 2017 (Sputnik)
ISRO has started a series of ground tests for testing the performance of sensors and actuators for soft landing of the Lander on the lunar surface. India Space ...
Private Space Race Heats Up, Moon Landing Expected in Late 2017
Feb 01, 2017 (Sputnik)
Moon Express, the first private company to receive government approval for a space mission, has announced an additional $20 million raised for a lunar voyage in...
Complete Lunar-cy: The Earth Has Sprayed the Moon With Oxygen for Billennia
Feb 01, 2017 (Sputnik)
The Moon may be peppered with oxygen transmitted by life on Earth, according to a scientific study, opening up the possibility that the Earth's atmosphere of bi...
LunaH-Map CubeSat to map the Moon's water deposits
Jan 31, 2017 (SPX)
Arizona State University (ASU) is developing a small satellite that will search hydrogen in lunar craters with the ultimate goal of creating the most detailed m...
India, Israel among five teams fighting for first private Moon landing
Jan 27, 2017 (Sputnik)
Google and nonprofit company X Prize announced Wednesday that out of 33 original teams, five have secured launch contracts to send spacecraft to the moon. Teams...
China schedules Chang'e-5 lunar probe launch
Jan 24, 2017 (XNA)
China plans to launch the Chang'e-5 lunar probe at the end of November this year, from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China's Hainan Province, abo...
The science behind the Lunar Hydrogen Polar Mapper mission
Jan 19, 2017 (SPX)
Arizona State University's NASA mission to visit a metal asteroid is just beginning, but the first mission that marked the school as a major player in space exp...
Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on moon, dead at 82
Jan 16, 2017 (AFP)
US astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last man to set foot on the moon, died Monday at age 82, NASA and his family announced. Cernan was the spacecraft commander of A...
The moon is older than scientists thought
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
A UCLA-led research team reports that the moon is at least 4.51 billion years old, or 40 million to 140 million years older than scientists previously thought. ...
How the Moons That Came Before Collided to Form the Moon
Jan 10, 2017 (SPX)
The Moon, and the question of how it was formed, has long been a source of fascination and wonder. Now, a team of Israeli researchers suggests that the Moon we ...
New map of the Moon under creation in China
Jan 10, 2017 (XNA)
Chinese scientists are drawing a 1:2.5 million scale geological map of the Moon. Ouyang Ziyuan, first chief scientist of China's lunar exploration program, said...
Solar storms could spark soils at moon's poles
Jan 09, 2017 (SPX)
Powerful solar storms can charge up the soil in frigid, permanently shadowed regions near the lunar poles, and may possibly produce "sparks" that could vaporize...
China plans probes to far side, poles of Moon
Dec 28, 2016 (XNA)
China is planning missions to explore the far side of the Moon and to send robots to explore both lunar poles. Plans to send astronauts to the Moon are also bei...
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