From Alta: Sometime in the next decade, NASA hopes to deploy a rover to the dark side of the moon, where it will roll out 128 small, lightweight radio antennae in a flower configuration over 100 square kilometers of the lunar dirt. The FARSIDE project is designed to look for...
From Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A decade after NASA sent a rocket crashing into the moon’s south pole, spewing a plume of debris that revealed vast reserves of ice beneath the barren lunar surface, the space agency is racing to pick up where its little-remembered project left off. The so-called...
From Sky & Telescope: A future CubeSat pathfinder is set to explore a unique orbital path that will be used later by humans exploring the Moon. Last week, NASA awarded a $13.7 million contract to Advanced Space, based in Boulder, Colorado, to develop the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations...
From Nature: The quest to unlock the secrets of the baby Universe To get an idea of what the Universe looks like from Earth’s perspective, picture a big watermelon. Our Galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of the seeds, at the centre of the fruit. The space around it, the...
From CGTN America: It was exactly 50 years ago (Saturday 7/20) that two U.S. astronauts first walked on the moon. This "giant leap for mankind" remains one of humanity's greatest achievements. There are many celebrations taking place to mark the anniversary, including events in Houston, Texas, home of America's Apollo...
From 9News: At the Fiske Planetarium in Boulder, there are more than 75 shows this month to celebrate 50 years since the first manned lunar mission. Watch the video.
From CBC Radio: When humans return to the moon as soon as 2024, their missions will be vastly different from those of the Apollo pioneers. The Apollo program changed the world without significantly changing the surface of the moon, but the next phase of lunar development will be multinational, long-term...
From Richard French Live: Exactly 50 years ago the Apollo 11 astronauts were on their way to the moon. RFL’s Andrew Whitman speaks with Prof. Jack Burns, director of the Network for Exploration and Space Science, about this space aged milestone, and the future of NASA. Watch the video...
From Science: In the undulating, dust-covered Descartes Highlands, 380 kilometers southwest of Tranquility Base, where Apollo 11 landed half a century ago, a lonely gold-plated telescope has sat inert since 24 April 1972, when Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charles Duke blasted off the surface and left it behind...
From Global News: It’s been half a century since humans stepped foot on the moon, and now multiple nations and for-profit companies are racing to go back. Watch the video.
