19 August 2019
Maxar selected to build, fly first element of NASA’s Lunar Gateway
... Moon. It will drive our activity with commercial and international partners and help us explore the entire lunar surface and its resources,” said William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... missions launched by these countries and their corporations to the Moon. This demonstration of how we might unlock such lunar resources profitably is what offers us the best chance of taking the next giant leap towards becoming a bi-planetary...
May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
...LBAs) waveband. These antennas (see image at right) could be adapted to a lightweight form and grouped to suit the lunar environment. PSRs like Shackleton, chilled to around -240C, could provide a stable, superconducting environment that is ideal for...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
... Johnson. A team composed both of current and original-generation Apollo scientists (including Dr. Harrison H. ‘Jack’ Schmitt, Apollo 17 lunar module pilot and the only trained geologist to live and work on another world) is establishing exactly how...
June 2015
Lunar Mission One: crowdfunding endeavour and drilling on the Moon
... to the agency, who will in turn pay the mission supplier. The revenues would be underwritten separately. Lunar pioneering Lunar Mission One is without doubt pioneering a new method of financing space exploration, a new strategy of working with...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
...from Germany: TU Clausthal, BAM, Hochschule Aalen, from Austria: LIQUIFER), researches how pavement elements, fabricated from lunar regolith can be laser sintered into infrastructure such as roads and launch pads. Such infrastructure reduces problems...
