15 May 2019
New funding under fire for Moon 2024 Artemis mission
...multi-purpose crew vehicle intended to facilitate human exploration of the Moon, and beyond. So far, so good then, right?... in on the news about reallocating funds to support a Moon mission, as former NASA astronaut Jose Hernandez took to Twitter...
12 July 2019
NASA reassigns top leaders in Moon 2024 programme
... bold challenge to put the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024, with a focus on the ultimate goal of sending humans ... “And in fact, we have an opportunity now to land on the Moon in the year 2024 because of the hard work that he has put ...
20 September 2019
Russia and China to cooperate on future Moon missions
...Russia and China have agreed on a joint exploration of the Moon, which could see each country contributing a payload to the others ... detailed surveys of the south polar region of the Moon, covering the terrain, geological composition, locations of water...
02 October 2020
Nasa funds ICON to develop a 3D construction system for the moon
... could support a sustainable, long-term presence on the Moon. Known as “Project Olympus”, the private firm has teamed...up with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center under the Moon to Mars Planetary Autonomous Construction Technologies (MMPACT) project...
06 October 2017
Volcanic activity gave the early Moon an atmosphere
... be surrounded by an atmosphere more prevalent than that surrounding Mars today,” added Kring. This new picture of the Moon has important implications for future exploration programmes as the suspected volatiles trapped in icy deposits could provide...
10 November 2017
CubeSat mission to measure water on the Moon
...bases. There have already been many missions to the Moon so far to study its chemical constituents – Chandrayann-1,...Volatiles Mission, or MiLUV for short, could also study the Moon’s permanently shadowed regions that haven’t seen sunlight in perhaps a...
