... and is responsible for the reception, processing, and storage management of scientific data and samples. The China Lunar Exploration Project is a major national science and technology special landmark project defined in the “National Medium and Long...
...,” said Kathy Lueders, NASA's associate administrator for Human Explorations and Operations Mission Directorate. “This critical step puts humanity on a path to sustainable lunar exploration and keeps our eyes on missions farther into the solar...
...between national space authorities and not government-to-government agreements. Whether that is ultimately workable in terms of lunar exploration and exploitation remains to be seen. While they are based on an open platform and transparency, what are...
... room during its trip to the Moon. JAXA expects the transformable rover to play active roles in future lunar exploration missions as well as being a pathfinder mission for its crewed pressurised rover which the agency advertised for...
... the first trained scientist to walk on the Moon. During the Apollo 17 mission he collected evidence of lunar volcanic activity. Lunar exploration in the coming years will be essential preparation for long journeys across our Solar System, developing...
At a meeting of NASA’s Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG) this week, head boss Jim Bridenstine hinted that the agency’s first crewed mission to the Moon – Artemis III – would not head for the lunar South Pole but would...