As soon as April, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration — NASA — will launch Artemis II, the first crewed mission ...
The Apollo lunar missions worked by using a spacecraft in two parts. The Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM) traveled together from the launch pad at Cape Kennedy to lunar orbit ...
Astroport and Astrolab report they have successfully tested a prototype lunar excavator performing a site-prep simulation.
When Apollo 17 lifted off from the Moon’s Taurus-Littrow valley on December 14, 1972, Eugene Cernan became the last human being to leave footprints in lunar dust. He and geologist Harrison Schmitt had ...
Researchers at Georgia Tech tested copper and chemically modified reduced graphene oxide EDS to reduce lunar dust on curved surfaces under simulated lunar conditions.
Since its inception in 2013, Intuitive Machines has spent much of its time and energy on space infrastructure manufacturing to help facilitate government and commercial customer access to the Moon.
China recently conducted a test of a lunar lander, marking a turning point in the country’s space ambitions. The experiment is a central part of efforts to land astronauts on the moon by the end of ...
Intuitive Machines announced last week an $800 million acquisition that will catapult the one-time startup into the space industry establishment. The company’s planned purchase of Lanteris Space ...
Design, fear, and greed. After 25 years of obsessing over Mars, Elon Musk announced that SpaceX has shifted focus from ...
Only one of these patches of lunar plain can be Luna 9’s actual landing site – and there’s no guarantee that either of them is. But the search is oddly compelling.