28 February 2017
The future is here: Elon Musk announces commercial flights to the Moon
... the Falcon 9/Dragon 2 spacecraft. The mission will not be making a moon landing, and is likely to end in a water landing back on Earth. “This would do a long leap around the moon,” Musk said. “We’re working out the exact parameters, but this...
07 September 2019
Chandrayaan-2 lander fails to touchdown successfully
... of the mission saying that he was proud of a programme that had come so near to putting a probe on the Moon. A soft landing on another planetary body would have made India the fourth nation to achieve such a feat - an endeavour that...
28 May 2021
US GAO report casts doubt on 2024 lunar landing
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has published a report casting doubts on NASA’s plan to complete a moon landing in 2024 by suggesting that an ambitious timescale and technical risks are issues likely to push back the date of ...
19 April 2019
Mission to Mars by 2033 not viable says independent report
....” This can be accomplished he said, while speaking at a congressional hearing on Capitol Hill, if NASA accelerate its Moon landing plans. “The Moon is the proving ground,” said Bridenstine. Although the report, which NASA contracted the Science and...
03 June 2021
Nelson announces NASA’s return to Venus
...Moon landing, the Biden administration has doubled down on the Trump team’s pledge to land the “first woman and next man” on the Moon... Nor did Nelson mention a date for the astronaut landing, which the previous administration said would happen in 2024...
20 December 2021
China envisions crewed moon missions by 2030
..., reports SpaceNews. Last month Peijan noted that Chinese boots on the moon will be “entirely possible” by 2030, as long as technological research for crewed moon landings continues, and “as long as the country is determined”, he said. The rocket...
