October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
... NASA has developed and recently tested such a nuclear reactor called KRUSTY, that it is also considering testing on a lunar lander. However, as with the other nuclear power options, the question of their safety in an off-world environment remains...
20 September 2019
Russia and China to cooperate on future Moon missions
... NASA, which could threaten to delay work on lunar landers needed for Artemis. Such bills usually prevent agencies ...relying on a special authorised anomaly to start a lunar lander program. With questionable timetables, reshuffles and financial worries...
01 December 2014
Roscosmos plans deep space exploration
Russia is planning to recommence its uncrewed lunar sample return activities, ceased since the last lunar lander flown in 1974. Plans include three uncrewed craft – Lunas 25, 26 and 27 – flying in 2023-25. Subsequently, Luna 28 and 29 would ...
18 March 2019
A habitat prototype for NASA’s Moon-orbiting Gateway
...11 as a Moon-orbiting staging area for lunar landers and occasionally astronauts, with solar-electric propulsion moving... is learning all about the entire Moon,” he continued, “giving landers, rovers, robots and humans more access to more parts of the...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
..., the Apollo capsule, the Saturn rockets, and the lunar lander. Our spaceflight capability today is much greater than it was...we are studying the planet’s habitability. Robotic orbiters and landers from many nations will continue to prepare the way for...
June 2019
A reluctant American hero
...fire and he famously survived an ejection from the lunar lander trainer in 1968 when it crashed at low altitude... the only clear 70 mm Hasselblad photograph of Armstrong captured on the lunar surface. The ‘gift’ of Armstrong Norman Mailer’s book, Of a...
