... and overwhelming relief of all concerned. One of the experiments the astronauts left behind on the dusty lunar regolith was the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment (LLRE). The LLRE is made of quartz corner reflectors similar to bicycle reflectors and...
...using the Scorpion’s Serpent engines and a specialised hydrogen and oxygen lunar lander using in situ oxygen produced from lunar regolith. These could reduce the cost of reaching the lunar surface by a third, to a level comparable to the current cost...
...experiment preparation areas. The testbed will comprise a lunar regolith simulant sourced from the local Eifel region volcanic... to address the need within the EU to provide a lunar analogue facility that can be readily made available to research ...