Showing posts with label #TheMoon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #TheMoon. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 9, 2021

NASA Delays Moon Landing to 2025, Blames Jeff Bezos and Congress

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In what is a surprise to absolutely no one, NASA won’t be sending astronauts to the lunar surface in 2024. Blaming everyone but the kitchen...
Saturday, October 23, 2021

Nasa announces uncrewed flights around the Moon to begin in February 2022

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The Orion capsule will be launched on the Space Launch System, paving the way for the resumption of people to walk on Earth’s satellite ag...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

How to best watch the lunar eclipse in the US and Canada

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On May 26, a total lunar eclipse will be visible in the pre-dawn sky over much of North America. Skygazers will see the Moon pass completel...
Thursday, May 13, 2021

Congress fires warning shot at NASA after SpaceX Moon lander award

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Enlarge / Committee Chair Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., listens to former US Sen. Bill Nelson, President Biden’s nominee to be the next ...
Friday, April 16, 2021

SpaceX reportedly wins NASA’s Artemis lunar lander contract

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Elon Musk’s company will take astronauts to the Moon for the first time since 1972, according to the ‘Washington Post’ Source: https://w...
Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Russia turns away from NASA, says it will work with China on a Moon base

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Enlarge (credit: Simon Stacpoole | Offside | Getty Images) The heads of the Chinese and Russian space agencies signed an agreement on Tu...
Thursday, December 17, 2020

China collects Moon samples, may not share with NASA due to Wolf Amendment

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Enlarge / Workers at the landing site of the return capsule of China’s Chang’e 5 probe in Siziwang Banner, north China’s Inner Mongolia ...
Sunday, December 6, 2020

Jeff Bezos: Blue Origin space company will take first woman to the moon

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Amazon owner seeks Nasa lunar lander contract Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Dynetics also in competition Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origi...
Thursday, December 3, 2020

China’s lunar sampling robot beams back its first full-color moon shots

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Yesterday, China’s Chang’e-5 robotic lunar lander successfully set down on the lunar surface marking, for the first time in four decades, th...
Wednesday, December 2, 2020

China’s Chang’e-5 Moon mission returns colour pictures

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The robotic Chang’e-5 probe starts work to gather lunar samples it can send to Earth for study. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scien...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020

China’s Chang’e-5 lunar lander successfully lands on the Moon

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Chinese state news agencies are reporting a successful landing of the Chang’e-5 lunar robotic lander, which will seek to return lunar rock...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Fight for Moon’s limited resources could lead to ‘conflict’ between governments and private companies, scientists fear

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‘We don’t have a second moon to move on to. This is all we have to work with’ Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-an...
Monday, November 23, 2020

China in final preparations for latest lunar mission

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Chinese technicians are making final preparations for a mission to bring back material from the lunar surface in what would be a major advan...
Tuesday, November 17, 2020

One giant leap for China: Beijing gets ready to go to the Moon and bring back rocks

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If successful, the mission will be the first to bring back rocks from the Moon’s surface since the 1960s and 70s. Source: https://www.ind...

Astronomers outline revival plan for a massive telescope on the moon

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A group of astronomers from the University of Texas at Austin believe that reviving an old NASA plan from a decade ago could solve a problem...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

A rare blue moon will fall on Halloween this year — here’s how to see it

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The moon won’t actually appear to be the color blue — the moon gets its name from a 16th century folklore writer and back then, the term m...
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Nasa’s discovery of water on the Moon opens up endless, exciting possibilities

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Please send your letters to letters@independent.co.uk Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letters/nasa-moon-water-announcement-s...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Nasa Moon news: Clues emerge about ‘exciting’ new announcement

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Nasa has provoked excitement across the world with the promise that it will reveal a “new discovery about the Moon” in a major announcement....
Thursday, October 15, 2020

The Earth and Moon once shared a protective magnetic field

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NASA says that 4.5 billion years ago, the surface of our planet was extremely hot and unable to sustain life. The sun constantly bombarded t...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Dynetics has built a full-scale test version of its lunar human lander for NASA

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One of the three companies chosen by NASA to create a Human Landing System (HLS) for NASA has completed a key step by building a full-scal...