MOON - RUSSO DAILY

Apr 17, 2020 (ESA)

With one sample already being analysed, preparations are now being made to open the second later this year. This work focuses on rock and soil retrieved during ...

Time-travelling ESA team explore a virtual Moon

Apr 15, 2020 (SPX)

Apollo 15 was among the most ambitious of the six lunar landings, crossing a mountain range that rises higher than the Himalayas before landing beside Hadley Ri...

Xplore wins USAF award for innovative Cislunar commercial capabilities

Apr 15, 2020 (SPX)

Today, Earth-orbiting satellites rely on the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite constellation circling the Earth at an altitude of about 20,000 km (12,42...

Japan plans to launch micro probe into lunar orbit using solid-fuel rocket

Apr 14, 2020 (Sputnik)

The use of solid-fuel rockets in space exploration is not common, but compared to liquid propellants, it can make the process easier and cheaper. Japan is tryin...

Help Pave the Way for Artemis: Send NASA Your Mini Moon Payload Designs

Apr 13, 2020 (JPL)

These tiny robots would provide mission flexibility and collect key information about the lunar surface, its resources and the environment. The data collected b...

Apollo 13's 50th anniversary recalls NASA tragedy turned triumph

Apr 10, 2020 (UPI)

The third attempt to reach the moon ended with a serious explosion on the spacecraft as it neared the celestial body. That set off a series of emergencies on bo...

NASA awards contract to deliver science, tech to Moon ahead of human missions

Apr 09, 2020 (SPX)

The payloads, which include instruments to assess the composition of the lunar surface, test precision landing technologies, and evaluate the radiation on the M...

When the Moon dust settles, it won't settle in VIPER's wheels

Apr 09, 2020 (SPX)

NASA's new Moon rover, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, has been running tests to ensure its wheel module components are dust-proof in advan...

Space Tango wins NASA utilization awards for LEO Commercialization of biomedical applications

Apr 09, 2020 (SPX)

"We appreciate the support from NASA for our efforts to establish biomedical discovery manufacturing capabilities on orbit," said Twyman Clements, co-founder an...

NASA Commemorates 50th Anniversary of Apollo 13, 'A Successful Failure'

Apr 07, 2020 (SPX)

The overwhelming success of the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969 and the subsequent Apollo 12 mission gave many the impression that lunar landings were almost rou...

NASA unveils more Moon to Mars mission plans

Apr 07, 2020 (Sputnik)

NASA'S ambitious Artemis programme aimed at returning astronauts to the lunar surface by 2024 has just been expanded even further, aiming to maintain a human pr...

Xplore receives USAF award for innovative commercial capabilities around the Moon

Apr 07, 2020 (SPX)

Today, Earth-orbiting satellites rely on the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite constellation circling the Earth at an altitude of about 20,000 km (12,42...

Year's biggest supermoon to light up Tuesday's night sky

Apr 06, 2020 (UPI)

On April 7, the moon will be just 221,772 miles from Earth, some 30,000 miles closer than it was just two weeks ago. "This proximity will provide the largest ap...

China's lunar rover travels over 424 meters on moon's far side

Apr 02, 2020 (XNA)

Both the lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have ended their work for the 16th lunar day, and switched to dormant mode for the lunar night due to the l...

Using augmented reality to prepare Orion hardware

Apr 02, 2020 (SPX)

Mary Lakaszcyck, a technician with ASRC Federal Data Solutions, a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin, wears a pair of AR goggles as she places tape in locations w...

Last stop before launch: Orion passes tests and returns to Kennedy Space Center

Mar 30, 2020 (ESA)

Orion spent four months at NASA's Plum Brook station where it was subjected to the vacuum and temperatures of -175C to 75C it will experience on its flight to t...

Astronaut urine to build moon bases

Mar 30, 2020 (SPX)

NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and its Chinese counterpart plan to build moon bases in the coming decades, as part of a broader space exploration plan th...

NASA awards Artemis contract for Gateway Logistics Services

Mar 30, 2020 (SPX)

At the Moon, NASA and its partners will gain the experience necessary to mount a historic human mission to Mars. SpaceX will deliver critical pressurized and un...

Welcome Home, Orion: spacecraft ready for final Artemis I launch preparations

Mar 27, 2020 (SPX)

The spacecraft - comprised of the crew module and service module - arrived in Ohio during the fall of 2019, where two phases of testing occurred inside the worl...

Hunting out water on the Moon

Mar 26, 2020 (ESA)

Researcher Hannah Sargeant of the UK's Open University has made Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 Europe 2020 Innovation list for her work developing an improved me...