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  • Chang鈥檈-4 ready for attempted farside landing
    From Inside Outer Space: The state-run China Daily reports January 1st that the country鈥檚 Chang鈥檈 4 robotic probe is expected to land on the South Pole鈥揂itken basin on the Moon鈥檚 farside sometime between Wednesday and Thursday, citing
  • Photo of Harrison Schmitt
    From 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 Today: Apollo astronaut visits campus, shares tales from the moon This week, Harrison 鈥淛ack鈥� Schmitt, an Apollo-era astronaut and the last person to set foot on the moon, gave a group of 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 students the chance to see
  • Nature Illustration for How to Build a Moonbase
     From Nature: Next year, astronaut Matthias Maurer expects to walk on the surface of the Moon 鈥� but without the hassles of a rocket flight, zero-gravity nausea and a risky landing. Instead he鈥檒l stroll close to home in a leafy meadow near
  • Lockheed Martin's concept of a reusable, crewed lunar lander would take astronauts from a moon-orbiting space station down to the lunar surface
    From NBC News: Before humans venture to Mars, NASA wants to send astronauts back to the moon 鈥� and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has developed a new lunar lander concept designed to shuttle space flyers between a moon-orbiting space station and
  • Artist illustration of Lockheed Martin's lunar lander
    From Space News: Bremen, Germany 鈥� As NASA gears up to support work on lunar lander designs, Lockheed Martin released details Oct. 3 about a proposed reusable human lunar lander that leverages technology used on the Orion spacecraft and concepts
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    From the Washington Examiner: Late last year, President Trump announced a new 鈥� and expensive 鈥� mission for NASA: Return Americans to the moon, then reach Mars and planets beyond and do it in collaboration with private-sector partnerships. The
  • Dr. Jack Burns Moon background
    From the Daily Camera: University of Colorado researchers are planning to put a satellite in orbit around the moon to observe what they call the universe鈥檚 鈥渄ark ages鈥� 鈥� an era just 15 million to 30 million years after the Big Bang, before the first
  • Timeline of the Universe
    From 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 Today: The far side of the moon could give 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 researchers an unprecedented look back at the early 鈥渄ark ages鈥� of the universe before the first stars had begun to flare into existence. NASA recently picked the Dark Ages
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    From NASA: Section 1 - Forward to the Moon, Mars and Beyond and Section 2 - Americans in Lunar Orbit and on the Lunar Surface are particulary relevant to NESS projects. See the full report and other sections below. Section 1 - Forward to the
  • DAPPER Concept
    From NASA: NASA has selected nine proposals to study using small satellites, or SmallSats, for advanced astronomical space-based observations. The proposed SmallSat studies are a fraction of the size, weight, and cost of a typical space-bound
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