18 March 2019
A habitat prototype for NASA’s Moon-orbiting Gateway
... opportunity to have crew,” Bridenstine said. “When we go back to Apollo, we remember that we landed 12 astronauts on the surface of the Moon over a period of three years, 1969 to 1972. Each one of those missions was to the equatorial regions of the...
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 June 2019
Mysterious mass found under Moon's South Pole
... suggested another possible explanation; a concentration of dense oxides that formed in the final stages of cooling when the moon was covered in magma oceans billions of years ago. However, as reasonable as it might sound, even the researchers cannot...
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...
