13 July 2018
Israel plan to launch historic Moon mission later this year
... still shooting for the Moon and plans to send its lander to the lunar surface by the end of the year. This would ...they will use a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to deliver their robotic lander to the Moon following a launch scheduled for December from Cape ...
07 September 2019
Chandrayaan-2 lander fails to touchdown successfully
...before its Vikram module was due to touch down at the lunar south pole. The Chandrayaan-2 approached the Moon as normal ... "Only 5 per cent of the mission has been lost - Vikram the lander and Pragyan the rover - while the remaining 95 per cent - that ...
24 August 2020
NASA receives full-sized lunar lander mock-up from Blue Origin
... will be constructed by Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin respectively. The Descent Element is based on the Blue Moon lunar lander and BE-7 LOX/hydrogen engine, while the reusable Ascent Element vehicle is based on the deep-space Orion...
31 December 2019
NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander kit
The latest space-related model in Lego’s Creator Expert series has landed! The Apollo 11 Lunar Lander building set was developed to mark, as the publicity accurately describes, “the 50th anniversary of a historical event that ...
28 July 2021
Bezos offers $2 billion in incentives for NASA lunar lander contract
..., the shortfalls of this single source selection have been recognized, and NASA has begun to solicit new lunar lander proposals. But, unfortunately, this new approach won’t create true competition because it is rushed, it is unfunded, and it provides...
19 April 2021
NASA picks SpaceX Human Lunar Lander for its Artemis programme
..., and other destinations. SpaceX beat Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, who has already delivered a full-sized lunar lander mock-up to the agency and defence contractor Dynetics to be the sole provider for the system, a deviation from...
