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Chinese volunteers emerge from virtual moon base
May 15, 2018 (AFP)
The official Xinhua news service streamed images on its website of the would-be astronauts emerging from their temporary home, a self-contained environment simu...
Take me to the Moon
May 08, 2018 (SPX)
Newly appointed NASA Administrator, Jim Bridenstine, has thus been charged with fulfilling this policy objective. The last administration wanted to go to Mars, ...
Russian cosmonaut could ride US spacecraft to Moon for first mission
May 07, 2018 (Sputnik)
"Within the framework of talks, draft plans of future manned missions to the lunar stations have been made. Among other issues, the possibility to send one Russ...
NASA expands plans for Moon exploration
May 04, 2018 (SPX)
Right now, NASA is preparing to purchase new small lunar payload delivery services, develop lunar landers, and conduct more research on the Moon's surface ahead...
Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway is First Step Towards Mars - ESA Coordinator
May 02, 2018 (Sputnik)
Sputnik: NASA is planning to award the first contracts for Gateway construction next year. How big of a step is it? Philippe Schoonejans: I think it's a big ste...
China has technological basis for manned lunar landing
Apr 30, 2018 (XNA)
Human exploration of the universe would not stop in low-Earth orbit as China was drawing up the blueprint for manned space development after the construction of...
Scientists shocked as NASA cuts only moon rover
Apr 28, 2018 (AFP)
Scientists working on the Resource Prospector (RP) mission, a robotic rover that had been in development for about a decade to explore a polar region of the Moo...
Magma ocean may be responsible for the moon's early magnetic field
Apr 26, 2018 (SPX)
Scientist Aaron Scheinberg of Princeton, with Krista Soderlund from the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, and Linda Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State U...
China calls for ideas on design of manned lunar landing
Apr 25, 2018 (XNA)
According to Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China's manned space program, the aim is to find innovative ideas for the design of manned lunar surface landing a...
NASA continues to discuss co-op on Lunar orbital platform with other countries
Apr 25, 2018 (Sputnik)
"NASA is still gathering information for Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway development," a NASA communications official told Sputnik on Monday. "This includes cont...
US plans own space suits for EVAs instead of Russia's at Lunar Gateway
Apr 24, 2018 (Sputnik)
"They offer to conduct spacewalks via the Russian airlock in US-made space suits," the source said. According to the source, foreign partners explained such req...
The New Space Race: NASA to Award 1st Contracts for Gateway Moon Base
Apr 23, 2018 (Sputnik)
Expected to begin next year, a big push to reignite space exploration will see landmark awards for contractors to begin building humanity's first orbital moon b...
China to name relay satellite for Chang'e-4 lunar probe
Apr 23, 2018 (XNA)
The name will be announced on China's Space Day on April 24, marking the day the country's first satellite was sent into space in 1970, according to the China N...
Moon Colonization: Why do we want it and what technologies do we have?
Apr 20, 2018 (Sputnik)
The idea of the Moon's colonization was quite popular during the Cold War era. But in the mid-1970s such projects by the USSR and the US were suspended as trave...
Indian Space Agency claims to have saved $120 mln on second Lunar mission
Apr 20, 2018 (Sputnik)
"The total cost of the mission is about INR 800 crore ($124 million), which includes INR 200 crore ($31 million) as the cost of launching and INR 600 crore ($93...
Moon village already exists in contracts, Says ESA Chief
Apr 19, 2018 (Sputnik)
"It is not a project of ESA, everybody is invited," Woerner said. "It is just an open concept and we are collecting institutions worldwide participating in that...
SSTL and Goonhilly Earth Station Sign Collaboration Agreement with ESA for Commercial Lunar Missions
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
The partnership allows for a low-risk, phased approach to implementing a sustainable, long-term commercial service and will support lunar scientific and economi...
Walking on the Moon - underwater
Apr 18, 2018 (ESA)
The three-year study took place in the Centre's 10-m deep Neutral Buoyancy Facility (NBF) near Cologne in Germany. This is one of four such immersion tanks worl...
NASA offers 4K tour of the moon
Apr 12, 2018 (UPI)
Engineers with NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio used the same camera path but incorporated a wealth of new data collected by the LRO over the last several...
NAU planetary scientist's study suggests widespread presence of water on the Moon
Apr 06, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers analyzed remote-sensing data from two lunar missions and concluded that water appears to be evenly spread across the surface of the moon, not co...
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