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European-built Service Module arrives in US for first Orion lunar mission
Nov 07, 2018 (SPX)
The service module is integral to human missions to the Moon and Mars. After Orion launches on top of the agency's Space Launch System rocket, the service modul...
Roscosmos to Study Possibility to 3D Print Lunar Soil Details for Space Repairs
Nov 06, 2018 (Sputnik)
"We need powder to be able to use additive technologies. And we want to understand if it is possible to make powder that can be baked and then used for the crea...
First moon walk's commemorative plaque sold for $468,500
Nov 04, 2018 (AFP)
The plaque includes a representation of the lunar module that touched down on the moon on July 20, 1969. Once back on Earth, it was mounted on a wooden base bef...
Maxar Technologies' MDA to design lunar rover concept for Canadian Space Agency
Oct 31, 2018 (SPX)
As part of MDA's concept, the rover would be engineered to travel up to 600 km over its lifetime in the harsh lunar environment via tele-robotic control and adv...
Neil Armstrong's huge souvenir collection to be auctioned
Oct 31, 2018 (AFP)
Nobody really knew the extent of the stuff Armstrong amassed during his 82 years on earth, not even the children of the man who made history with his feat on Ju...
India successfully conducts crucial test of Moon lander
Oct 29, 2018 (Sputnik)
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully conducted the crucial Lander Actuator Performance Test (LAPT) at the propulsion complex in Mahend...
NASA seeks information for gateway cargo delivery services
Oct 24, 2018 (SPX)
The agency is seeking input from U.S. companies regarding logistics requirements to supply the Gateway. This request, published Oct. 23, 2018, will help NASA un...
LGS Innovations' Laser Technology to Bring HD Video from the Moon
Oct 22, 2018 (SPX)
LGS Innovations will provide an optical modem that will enable broadband data communications to and from the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle designed to take h...
NASA calls for instruments, technologies for delivery to the Moon
Oct 22, 2018 (SPX)
NASA is preparing to purchase commercial lunar payload delivery services for small payloads, and develop lunar landers for large payloads, to conduct more resea...
Preparing future explorers for a return to the Moon
Oct 22, 2018 (SPX)
Dr. David Kring, a Universities Space Research Association scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), created the training program to instruct postdo...
China plans to launch 'moon double' into space to illuminate streets
Oct 19, 2018 (Sputnik)
Chairman of the Chengdu Aerospace Science and Technology Microelectronics System Research Institute Co (CASC) Wu Chunfeng said that Beijing will be launching a ...
First Man: a new vision of the Apollo 11 mission to set foot on the Moon
Oct 15, 2018 (SPX)
Director Damien Chazelle has delivered an intense film about astronaut Neil Armstrong, who made those iconic first steps. But this is no triumphant paean to the...
SpaceX delays Israel's first lunar mission to early 2019
Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)
SpaceIL said Elon Musk's SpaceX firm, whose rockets are set to carry the unmanned probe into space, had informed it of "a delay of a number of weeks to the begi...
Lunar craters named in honor of Apollo 8
Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)
Since the Moon is tidally locked to the Earth - it always has the same side facing the Earth - the Earth will never appear to rise above the surface to someone ...
Lockheed Martin solicits ideas for commercial payloads on Orion spacecraft
Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for Orion, the world's only spacecraft designed for human deep space missions that will take astronauts farther into spa...
Bezos' Blue Origin signs on to ship supplies to Moon by 2023
Oct 08, 2018 (Sputnik)
Blue Origin, a project described by the US billionaire as "the most important work I'm doing" and a rival to Elon Musk's SpaceX company, signed a letter of inte...
Lockheed Martin Reveals New Human Lunar Lander Concept
Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)
The crewed lunar lander is a single stage, fully reusable system that incorporates flight-proven technologies and systems from NASA's Orion spacecraft. In its i...
NASA, Israel Space Agency Sign Agreement for Commercial Lunar Cooperation
Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)
NASA will contribute a laser retroreflector array to aid with ground tracking and Deep Space Network support to aid in mission communication. ISA and SpaceIL wi...
China planning probes, manned missions, ultimately a base on moon - Space Chief
Oct 02, 2018 (Sputnik)
Li Guoping, director of the Department of System Engineering of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), said at the World Conference on Science Literacy...
Russia's lunar exploration program should be part of internatinal project
Oct 01, 2018 (Sputnik)
Earlier in September, Dmitry Rogozin, the director general of Russian Roscosmos state space corporation, said that the United States was offering Russia to part...
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