12 December 2017
Trump signs Space Policy Directive 1
.... Perhaps poignantly, the signing of the directive was timed to coincide with the Apollo 17 mission – the last mission when humans walked on the Moon. “Exactly 45 years ago, almost to the minute, Jack [Schmidt] became one of the last...
13 July 2018
Israel plan to launch historic Moon mission later this year
... its lander to the lunar surface by the end of the year. This would be the first-ever Israeli Moon mission and only the fourth country after the US, Russia and China to put a craft on the surface of the...
January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
... 1972, the Apollo programme conducted six crewed Moon missions that garnered about 382 kilograms of rocks, core..., her husband received memorabilia associated with the first Moon landing mission, Apollo 11, which included two encased paperweights. One...
13 October 2017
Moon Express and NanoRacks sign alliance for Moon missions
...cost of access to space and to create new opportunities for research, exploration and commercial missions in and beyond Earth orbit. Last year, Moon Express became the first company in history to receive U.S. government authorisation for a commercial...
May 2018
Woman on the Moon
...); a story that goes into detail about a mysterious Leda 1 Moon Mission, including a mission badge and torn spaceship sketches of the Swan Lander, which took astronaut Jeanne J Crane to the Moon in 2001. Unfortunately, she never returned and a seal...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... very crowded. Japan, China, Russia and the United States all are weighing manned Moon missions within the next decade. Private manned missions may get there even sooner and more robots will be deployed to the...
