Learn About Earth's Nearest Neighbor - The Moon
UPDATE Sept. 3rd: Today’s second launch attempt has been scrubbed, again due to a hydrogen fuelling leak. Stay tuned for news of when the next launch attempt will be made.
Teams are moving forward to the Moon with a second launch attempt of the Artemis I mission on Saturday, 3 September.
The two-hour launch window starts at 14:17 EDT (19:17 … Read the rest of this article
UPDATE: Today’s (August 29) launch has been scrubbed. The next launch window is on September 2nd. A hydrogen leak was been detected in the fuel system but couldn’t be fixed to allow today’s launch to go ahead.
Watch the most powerful rocket ever built launch on 29 August from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA.
Teams on Earth have … Read the rest of this article
How SpaceX and NASA Will Build The First Moon Base! SpaceX will land people onto the moon this decade.. let’s take a look at the collaboration between NASA and SpaceX to build a moon base lunar colony…
Some piece of space debris is soon to slam into the Moon.
The origin of that debris has been hard to identify.
Initially, it was thought that it was debris from one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 missions in 2015.
That was eventually ruled out.
Then the finger was pointed at China and that the debris is part of one of … Read the rest of this article
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1:30 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 24, to provide an update on progress toward the launch of the agency’s uncrewed Artemis I mission.
Artemis engineers are working through final closeout tasks for the launch, as well as integrated testing before the rocket rolls out to the pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in … Read the rest of this article
With humans returning to the Moon later this decade. preparations are underway for building the lunar Gateway.
The Gateway will serve as a multi-purpose outpost orbiting the Moon that provides essential support for long-term human return to the lunar surface.
It will also serve as a staging point for further deep space exploration.
European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Alexander … Read the rest of this article
China’s Chang’e 4 mission which combined both a lander and a rover called Yutu 2, was launched to the Moon on 7 December 2018.
After arriving in lunar orbit on December 12th, it orbited the Moon for a few weeks before landing on the Moon’s far side on January 3rd, 2019.
The solar-powered Yutu 2 and Chang’e 4 lander made … Read the rest of this article
Mirror, mirror, on the Moon, how far away are you?
MoonLIGHT or Moon Laser Instrumentation for General relativity/geophysics High-accuracy Tests is seeking the answer to this and more questions on general relativity, the gravitational dynamics of the Earth-Moon system and the deep lunar interior.
MoonLIGHT is a laser retroreflector, imaged here, which allows laser beams sent from Earth to be … Read the rest of this article
Have you ever wondered when the next full moon will be?
How about the first quarter moon?
Now you can have all the dates and times for all the moon phases for the year at your fingertips by building your own moon phases calendar and calculator!
JPL have a web page that lists all the materials needed along with step-by-step … Read the rest of this article
NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines of Houston a contract to deliver research, including science investigations and a technology demonstration, to the Moon in 2024.
The commercial delivery is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative and the Artemis program.
The investigations aboard Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander are destined for Reiner Gamma, one of the most … Read the rest of this article