24 August 2020
NASA receives full-sized lunar lander mock-up from Blue Origin
...”; a vehicle that brings the landing systems into position in lunar orbit. The Transfer Element is based on its Cygnus cargo ... Moon in 2024,” said Kirk Shireman, vice president of Lunar Campaigns at Lockheed Martin Space. With the mock-up now ready...
17 May 2021
European startup to produce oxygen from lunar soil for ESA 2025 mission
... Moon, the process involves separating ilmenite – a compound which contains iron, titanium and oxygen (FeTiO3) – from lunar soil, crushing it to a fine powder and then heating it in an enclosed reaction vessel in the presence of hydrogen gas. The...
28 May 2021
US GAO report casts doubt on 2024 lunar landing
...—along with some technical risks—mean that it's less likely a lunar landing will happen in 2024,” says the report published 26 May...“has not fully addressed management challenges related to its lunar programmes” that were identified in the 2020 study. ...
29 March 2018
Lunar Settlements
...involved or interested in the general subject of lunar exploration. The contents are divided into seven sections, covering...: “To summarize this summary, it isn’t 1961 any more, when the lunar program was carried along on a wave of public support. So we have...
22 October 2019
Bezos announces Blue Moon partnership for lunar landing
... company is to head up a national team to offer a human landing system for NASA's Artemis programme to return Americans to the lunar surface by 2024. Speaking to several thousand delegates Bezos, who received a standing ovation at the end of his talk...
01 January 2020
NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander kit
...fairly-detailed collectible replica of the Eagle lunar module, presented on a lunar surface complete with crater, flag and ...of the 1000-odd pieces make up the 20cm-square base or ‘lunar surface’, which was slightly annoying to begin with: I thought, ...
