January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
... house to sell the forfeited items. A Lunar Sample Return bag was among the items forfeited and listed for... Carlson. Sotheby’s auction in July 2017 of the NASA Lunar Sample Return bag. After receiving the bag, Nancy began wondering if it contained...
13 December 2019
NASA selects Nightingale site for asteroid sample collection
... out asteroid Bennu’s boulder-scattered surface, the team leading NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission has officially selected a sample collection site. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
... programme (see table). China achieved its first lunar landing in 2013, a far side landing in 2019 and a sample return in 2020 (Chang’e 3-5), but had three more lunar spacecraft in preparation (Chang’e 6-8). Russia, by contrast, wanted to resume its...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
...community for this object has led to the introduction of many different concepts over the past decade: sample return missions, high-resolution geophysical characterisation, surface landers, and geological and chemical mapping. It is expected that the...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... missions with rovers already accomplished, and a pair of sample return missions planned for the coming year. Taikonauts will follow .... Having been to the lunar surface and returned with rock samples revealing its mineral potential, it was Armstrong’s...
28 January 2019
Oldest Earth rocks found on the Moon
... Moon. The surprising find has been uncovered by an international team of scientists who had been studying a lunar sample returned by the Apollo 14 astronauts from their mission 48 years ago. The 2 gram fragment of rock, which is a possible relic...
