27 January 2020
US bill spurns Moon programme favouring Mars instead
... a backwards step by the US government away from a more ambitious agenda for space exploration. Even the proposed lunar Gateway - a base in lunar orbit used as a platform for astronauts heading to the Moon and a key element of NASA's Artemis program...
September 2023
India signs up to the Artemis Accords
.... In March 2021 Roscosmos and the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), a planned lunar base designed for conducting scientific research. It will include all support facilities on the...
October 2024
The Human Spaceship - Off Balance
...are being asked and answered in the context of a lunar base camp and planned missions to Mars. With the emergence ...1.1m high x 82cm wide. 2024. Depicting multiple visual lunar phenomena. Geometry and patternmaking Geometric symbols and proportions can...
25 March 2019
Moon isolation experiment begins in Moscow
...to stay longer. Talks of extended visits and setting up lunar bases are now the new agenda, but so far, the ... a space freighter will deliver food and consumables to the orbital lunar station every 30 days. Then, exactly halfway through the SIRIUS ...
22 August 2018
Definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface
... the past, both the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) detected signatures that were interpreted as...establish a lunar base in the next few decades. "A future Moon mission is needed to examine the whole lunar PSRs to...
29 March 2018
Lunar Settlements
... lunar development, outer space habitat design, the human condition, planning and analogues, lunar bases, and lunar ...: “To summarize this summary, it isn’t 1961 any more, when the lunar program was carried along on a wave of public support. So we have...
