February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
...perspective, this makes all of the lunar samples highly interesting as they are all different. However, this ... this specific application. Scientist-astronaut Harrison Schmitt collects lunar rake samples during Apollo 17 in 1972 at the Taurus-Littrow...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... low gravity body mission elements, systems and protocols prior to their use at Mars. In particular, the return of lunar samples from the south pole Aitken Basin meshes the accomplishment of a key Decadal Survey science objective with...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... of the Chang’e architecture duplicate on a smaller scale China’s human mission plans for the early 2030s. The lunar sample return tested in miniature most of the operations and many of the technologies necessary to achieve a human landing. Thus...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... any individual thought to have obtained any lunar samples. Geostationary orbit has become its own economy...‘open and obvious’ dominion and control exercised over the Apollo lunar samples, it is clear that under customary international law, portions of...
January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
... government has ever protested or objected to the United States claiming ownership over the extracted lunar material. Apollo 16 lunar sample weighing 128 grams, collected by astronaut John W. Young about 15 m southwest of the landing site. There...
28 January 2019
Oldest Earth rocks found on the Moon
... on the Moon. The surprising find has been uncovered by an international team of scientists who had been studying a lunar sample returned by the Apollo 14 astronauts from their mission 48 years ago. The 2 gram fragment of rock, which is a possible...
