June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
...It is clear therefore that until the cost of space access is lowered the situation with building a base on the Moon is unlikely to change. Considering the current level of rocket and other space technology development, it is more profitable to create...
May 2018
Woman on the Moon
... required in such a situation. Participants can design new spacesuits from smart materials and even specialist Moon fashions. A ‘Full Moon’, complete with reflective pearlescent surface, was inspired by the round hypnotic appearance of the lunar face...
21 March 2018
NASA aims for the Moon with commercial help
... cislunar space. It will drive our activity with commercial and international partners and help us explore the Moon and its resources,” said William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, at NASA...
01 November 2016
New twist on Moon formation helps explain its weird orbit
... University of California, Davis and senior author on a paper recently submitted to Nature on this new research. However, if the Moon condensed from a disk of material rotating around Earth's equator, then it should be in orbit over the equator but...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
...the next logical step for NASA? Is it to return to the Moon, or press forward to Mars? With shrinking space budgets, a lack ...great interest if NASA were to invite partners to join a Moon exploration programme. “I even think China would be open to this...
13 September 2016
Scientists prove the Moon was created by a vaporised Earth
...expands to form an enormous superfluid disk from which the Moon eventually crystallises. This theory is more favoured as the... found in lunar samples. The duo’s findings show that Moon rocks are enriched in the isotope compared with Earth rocks ...
