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NASA to announce a second Lunar lander partner for Moon Mission
May 17, 2023 (SPX)
NASA's ambitious Artemis V mission envisions a landing system capable of transporting astronauts from the lunar Gateway station to the Moon's surface and back. ...
NASA Gears Up to Train Artemis II crew for Moon mission
May 16, 2023 (SPX)
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen will complete their training over t...
NASA calls end to Lunar Flashlight after some tech successes
May 15, 2023 (JPL)
NASA's Lunar Flashlight launched on Dec. 11, 2022, to demonstrate several new technologies, with an ultimate goal to seek out surface ice in the permanently sha...
NASA selects five teams to study Lunar science and sample analysis
May 12, 2023 (SPX)
"These new teams will collaborate with the existing SSERVI teams to maintain NASA's leadership in lunar science in this new era of lunar exploration," said Lori...
SwRI to lead NASA/SSERVI Center for Lunar Origin and Evolution
May 12, 2023 (SPX)
"The Moon is unmatched in its potential to provide fundamental advances in our understanding of the origin and early evolution of the Solar System," said SwRI's...
Scientists to explore lunar construction materials, tech
May 11, 2023 (XNA)
BIT's research team will study the material characteristics of these samples and related manufacturing technology, with the building of a future lunar research ...
Team Continues to Troubleshoot Propulsion for NASA's Lunar Flashlight
May 09, 2023 (JPL)
Devised by team members at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, Georgia Tech, and the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, A...
The Mystery of the Glass Substance in the Chang'e-5 Lunar Soil
May 07, 2023 (SPX)
China's Chang'e-5 mission marked the country's first extraterrestrial sampling, successfully collecting and returning the youngest and highest latitude lunar so...
The Moon's heart revealed for the first time
May 05, 2023 (SPX)
While the formation and evolution of the Moon continue to be debated, its deep interior structure has now been established. Over fifty years since humanity's fi...
What will the Artemis Moon base look like?
May 04, 2023 (AFP)
But building a lunar base is no small feat. It will need power generators, vehicles and habitats, and the space industry is racing to meet the technological cha...
Czech Republic latest nation to sign on to NASA's moon-focused Artemis Accords
May 04, 2023 (UPI)
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský signed the agreement at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. The non-binding agreement establishes a set of gu...
Sidus Space and Lulav Space team up for navigation and control of lunar spacecraft
May 03, 2023 (SPX)
"Lulav's engineers played an integral role in the Beresheet 1 mission, the first private Lunar lander mission, launched in 2019. We look forward to capitalizing...
ShadowCam images Lunar south polar region
May 01, 2023 (SPX)
To prepare, NASA scientists and engineers are learning as much as possible about this shadowy region that promises to yield scientific discoveries that can help...
China's International Lunar Research Station advances
May 01, 2023 (SPX)
On April 25, the first International Conference on Deep Space Exploration (Tiandu), themed "Flying to Deep Space through Win-win Cooperation," commenced in Hefe...
NASA extracts oxygen from lunar soil simulant
Apr 26, 2023 (SPX)
During a recent test, scientists at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil. Lunar soil refers to the fin...
China lunar samples gifted to Russia, France
Apr 26, 2023 (XNA)
The administration announced on Monday that 1.5 grams of lunar samples were presented to Russia during President Vladimir Putin's visit to China in February 202...
Fly me to the Moon: Firms lining up lunar landings
Apr 26, 2023 (AFP)
Only Russia, the United States and China have made the 384,000-kilometre (239,000-mile) journey and landed safely on the Moon's surface. Here are some of the co...
Scientist lays out plans for international lunar station and 3D luanr printing
Apr 26, 2023 (XNA)
Wu Weiren, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering and chief planner of the country's lunar programs, said on Tuesday in Hefei, Anhui province, the...
Hard landing: Japan firm fails in historic Moon bid
Apr 26, 2023 (AFP)
The unmanned Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander had been scheduled to arrive on the Moon's surface overnight but communications were lost during its descent and had stil...
Moon shot: Japan firm to attempt historic lunar landing
Apr 25, 2023 (AFP)
If all goes to plan, ispace's Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander will start its descent towards the lunar surface at around 1540 GMT. It will slow its orbit some 100 kil...
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