30 April 2018
NASA cancels its lunar Resource Prospector mission
NASA have left many in the lunar science community confused and angered after the agency decided to scrap it’s Resource Prospector mission - it’s only planned robotic ...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
..., 16 July 1969, from launch complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The Apollo 11 crew bought back 21.5 kg of lunar material. They set up a lunar science station and took part in the first basic geological field traverse of the...
29 March 2018
Northern Arizona Space Training
... recalls how Brainerd Holmes, then head of NASA’s Office of Manned Spaceflight, “strongly opposed” Shoemaker’s lobbying for lunar science. Holmes’ attitude towards scientists, reveals the text, was “essentially, ‘buzz off’. The president had directed...
