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...
21 June 2019
Artemis-1 flight faces delays suggests new report
...SLS) is due to fly an uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon is also highly unlikely to achieve its launch date of 2020 ...is because NASA shifted some planned SLS scope to future missions but did not reduce the program’s cost baseline accordingly....
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...
22 July 2019
Its lift-off for India's Chandrayaan-2 Moon mission
..., to become only the fourth nation in the world to land a spacecraft on the Moon, if the country succeeds in its objective. But also because this Moon mission is being led by two women - Muthaya Vanitha, the project director, and Ritu...
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...
