MOON - RUSSO DAILY

Has Earth's oxygen rusted the Moon for billions of years

Sep 03, 2020 (SPX)

Iron is highly reactive with oxygen - forming reddish rust commonly seen on Earth. The lunar surface and interior, however, are virtually devoid of oxygen, so p...

Orion program completes key review for Artemis I

Sep 02, 2020 (SPX)

The review examined every spacecraft system, all test data, inspection reports, and analyses that support verification, to ensure every aspect of the spacecraft...

Researchers develop dustbuster for the moon

Sep 01, 2020 (SPX)

The research, published recently in the journal Acta Astronautica, marks the latest to explore a persistent, and perhaps surprising, hiccup in humanity's dreams...

China's Chang'e-4 probe survives 600 Earth days on Moon's far side

Sep 01, 2020 (XNA)

With a variety of scientific gear on board, the Chinese lunar probe observed and measured the exotic land, offering unprecedented views and understanding of the...

Wheelock readies astronauts for Lunar landing

Aug 31, 2020 (SPX)

Wheelock is a veteran test pilot and retired U.S. Army colonel who has accumulated 178 days in space and was a guest speaker at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research...

Sensing the Moon with the Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer

Aug 31, 2020 (ESA)

The Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer (ITMS) imaged above is a part of an instrument that will detect lunar volatiles from both the extremely thin atmosphere of the Mo...

Orion Window Panel Complete for Front-Row View on Artemis Moon Mission

Aug 20, 2020 (SPX)

The first element machined for the Artemis III Orion crew module - a cone panel with openings for windows which will provide that spectacular view - was designe...

Lander exhaust could cloud studies of Lunar ices

Aug 16, 2020 (SPX)

Computer simulations of water vapor emitted by a 2,650-pound (1,200-kilogram) lander - about a quarter of the dry mass of the Apollo lunar module - touching dow...

China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 21st lunar day

Aug 16, 2020 (XNA)

The lander woke up at 14:54 Thursday (Beijing Time) while the rover awoke at 20:34 Wednesday. Both are in normal working order, according to the Lunar Explorati...

India's Chandrayaan-2 images Sarabhai Crater

Aug 14, 2020 (Sputnik)

India's Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday shared images of vast lava plains creating a near flat surface on the Moon, captured by the Terrain Mapp...

Russian Cosmonauts Could Be Going to the Moon Without a Super-Heavy Launch Vehicle

Jul 27, 2020 (Sputnik)

Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia has created and patented a means to fly cosmonauts to the Moon and back without an expensive new heavy-launch rocke...

Study reveals composition of gel-like lunar substance

Jul 23, 2020 (SPX)

A research team led by Prof. DI Kaichang from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators anal...

Aerojet Rocketdyne completes its propulsion for NASA's Artemis II mission

Jul 21, 2020 (SPX)

The Artemis II mission is the second flight of SLS and Orion and the first to send an astronaut crew to fly around the Moon. "These are very exciting times for ...

Russia's Trailblazing Lunar Lander Mission to be Launch-Tested With US Equipment

Jul 20, 2020 (Sputnik)

The launch readiness of equipment installed on Luna-25, the first lunar lander mission from the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) in the country's modern...

Solar power investigation to launch on lunar lander

Jul 17, 2020 (SPX)

Next summer, a solar power experiment designed by a team of investigators at NASA's Glenn Research Center will launch to the Moon on Astrobotic's Peregrine Land...

China's Chang'e 4 probe resumes work for 20th lunar day

Jul 16, 2020 (XNA)

The lander woke up at 5:48 am Wednesday (Beijing Time), and the rover awoke at 12:53 pm Tuesday. Both are in normal working order, according to the Lunar Explor...

Who's ready to serve the lunar missions

Jul 15, 2020 (ESA)

Efforts to explore the Moon have substantially grown recently, partly because it is a convenient place to develop the technologies and capabilities needed for p...

A slightly younger Moon

Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)

The previous assumptions about the formation of the Moon were based on an age of 4.51 billion years - that, is 85 million years earlier than the new calculation...

NASA Increases Investment in US Small Businesses to Mature Lunar Capabilities for Artemis

Jul 09, 2020 (SPX)

By awarding the companies with follow-on funds - an expected combined value of approximately $17 million - NASA's small business program will accelerate the dev...

Scientists identify 'gel-like' substance Chinese rover found on the moon

Jul 09, 2020 (UPI)

Through an analysis of the images and comparison with Apollo samples on earth, researchers found that the substance was rock -- and more specifically, rock that...