July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... impressed by the massive popular reaction in the US to the suborbital flight of Scott Carpenter a month earlier, and saw a Moon landing as an initiative that could establish the US as the world’s leading space power. NASA ramped up its activities...
July 2020
Investigations into plant growth on the Moon
... and their results. Why grow anything on the Moon? Because the Moon is important in the ‘stepping-stone approach’ to...to carry a self-sustaining ecosystem to the surface of Moon. Its science payloads included a unique biosphere experiment which ...
13 September 2016
Scientists prove the Moon was created by a vaporised Earth
...expands to form an enormous superfluid disk from which the Moon eventually crystallises. This theory is more favoured as the... found in lunar samples. The duo’s findings show that Moon rocks are enriched in the isotope compared with Earth rocks ...
01 November 2016
New twist on Moon formation helps explain its weird orbit
... University of California, Davis and senior author on a paper recently submitted to Nature on this new research. However, if the Moon condensed from a disk of material rotating around Earth's equator, then it should be in orbit over the equator but...
04 February 2019
The Moon is a mini-Earth suggests new research
... Houston, Texas, questions that assumption. Using a “bulk Moon” model composition similar to that of the Earth and factoring..., where the high pressure and temperature conditions of Moon’s interior can be simulated. “Researchers have analyzed small...
08 November 2019
MVA proposes 'Olympics on the Moon' event
...able to jump almost 2 metres straight up into the air on the Moon. And if throwing is your thing then you would be able to ... Further information is expected to be announced at the 3rd Moon Village Workshop and Symposium, that will take place in Tokyo ...
