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...
10 December 2018
First far side of the Moon mission underway
..., instead the robotic vehicle is expected to make a soft landing on the far side of our Moon in a few weeks time. This first-ever surface mission to this unexplored region lifted off on 8 December at 18:23 GMT/2:23 a.m. local China time. Chang...
01 October 2018
ispace partners with SpaceX for 2020 & 2021 Moon missions
... HAKUTO-R program will act primarily as technology demonstration for ispace. Success criteria for Mission 1 has been defined as an orbit around the Moon, while Mission 2 will perform a soft lunar landing and deployment of rovers to collect data from...
