01 October 2018
ispace partners with SpaceX for 2020 & 2021 Moon missions
... HAKUTO-R are targeted to begin from mid-2020 and from mid-2021, respectively. ispace is the first lunar exploration company to purchase multiple launches. Takeshi Hakamada, ispace Founder & CEO said “We share the vision with SpaceX...
19 April 2021
NASA picks SpaceX Human Lunar Lander for its Artemis programme
...,” 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...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
... 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...
18 September 2020
NASA chiefs hint that Artemis will land at Apollo site, not lunar poles
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...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
.... Attempts by NASA to expand this into scientific exploration of the Moon were firmly and explicitly refused by... had to spacewalk between LK3 and the Soyuz-type spacecraft in lunar orbit). Baikonur, September 1968 - US Gambit KH-8 spy satellite ...
03 January 2019
Chinese goddess lands on far side of the Moon
...side' because so little is known about it. A photo taken by the lunar explorer Chang’e 4 at 11.40 am China time (3.40 GMT) and published online by... came via state broadcaster CCTV which said the lunar explorer had touched down at 1026 (0226 GMT). ...
