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- From WIRED: In December 2017, roughly a year into his tenure as president, Donald Trump directed NASA to develop a plan to return American astronauts to the moon. Since then, the government has released few details about what this mission would look
- From Ars Technica: One of the panelists who will appear at a National Space Council meeting next Tuesday said to expect "a few fireworks" during the discussion, which will focus on NASA's efforts to return humans to the Moon. The meeting of
- From Space News: The National Space Council will hold its next public meeting March 26 to discuss NASA’s human space exploration plans. The council is slated to meet on the afternoon of March 26 at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville,
- From SYFY Wire: The moon may look like a vast extraterrestrial desert, but on the molecular level, it has the potential to quench an astronaut’s thirst. NASA scientists have discovered how future moonwalkers can use lunar chemistry to their
- From NASA: NASA has selected a new mission that will help scientists understand and, ultimately, forecast the vast space weather system around our planet. Space weather is important because it can have profound impacts – affecting technology
- From Space.com: An Israeli moon lander just took to the skies, but we'll all have to wait nearly two months for its historic touchdown try. The robotic lander, called Beresheet, launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket yesterday evening (Feb. 21) from
- From NASA: NASA has selected 12 science and technology demonstration payloads to fly to the Moon as early as the end of this year, dependent upon the availability of commercial landers. These selections represent an early step toward the agency’s
- From Space Policy Online.com: A robotic lunar lander built by an Israeli non-profit, SpaceIL, is on its way to the Moon tonight. Launched as a rideshare on a SpaceX launch of an Indonesian communications satellite, Beresheet will take about
- From Colorado Public Radio - Colorado Matters: Two Colorado companies are getting into the delivery business. Not the two-day delivery kind, more like the 238,900-mile outer space kind. NASA is planning to
- From Colorado Public Radio - Colorado Matters: Fifty years after U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon, China landed a rover on the far side of the Moon last week for the first time in history. Jack