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....
14 April 2021
Emirates partners with Japan for its 2022 lunar rover mission
... the terms of the agreement, the Japanese lunar exploration company will deliver the Emirates Lunar Mission’s ‘Rashid’ rover to the Moon, provide wired communication and power during the cruise phase, and engage in wireless communication...
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...
01 October 2019
The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America’s First Moon Missions
.... The author, who was born just prior to the Apollo 11 mission, has “tried to write a book” that will have surviving Apollo... simulate the communications signal delay between the Earth and the Moon (a round-trip delay of some three seconds). This led...
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...
