18 September 2020
NASA chiefs hint that Artemis will land at Apollo site, not lunar poles
.... Locked away in some of the permanently shadowed craters on the Moon, scientists think that large quantities of water, either in ice or... polar regions is more difficult than landing near the Moon’s equator. And landing at the poles would also require...
27 September 2021
Early findings from Chang'e 5 samples shows a mix of "exotic" materials
...used to answer a number of further scientific questions," said Qian. "In addressing these we shall deepen our understanding of the Moon's history and help prepare for further lunar exploration." The presentation entitled, "The Exotic Materials at the...
22 February 2019
NASA selects experiments for possible lunar flights in 2019
...’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) in November 2018, currently are developing landers to deliver NASA payloads to the Moon’s surface. As CLPS providers, they are pre-authorized to compete on individual delivery orders. NASA also released the...
19 April 2021
NASA picks SpaceX Human Lunar Lander for its Artemis programme
...expertise and capabilities, we will return American astronauts to the Moon’s surface once again, this time to explore new areas ...mobility capabilities to enable exploration of new regions of the Moon. On the surface, the agency has proposed building a...
28 July 2021
Bezos offers $2 billion in incentives for NASA lunar lander contract
... space, NASA must now quickly and assuredly return to the Moon. NASA has the opportunity to again inspire a whole new ...the Agency’s own admission, it bets our return to the Moon on a single solution of “immense complexity and heightened risk ...
12 December 2017
Trump signs Space Policy Directive 1
... paved the way to send American astronauts back to the Moon by signing his Space Policy Directive 1. “To guide this ... -– Obama’s predecessor – that wanted to return humans to the Moon by 2020 and then onwards to Mars. President Obama cancelled the ...
