Lunar Updates

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MARIANNE GUENOT,MORGAN MCFALL-JOHNSEN |14 April2023 | BUSINESS INSIDER

 China could be ready to start building its lunar base within five years, scientists said. China has made major strides in space exploration, recently launching its own crewed space station. More

By:  Science Desk  | 18 November 2022 | The Indian EXPRESS

 After multiple issues popped up during tanking operations, NASA’s Artemis 1 mission launched from Launch Complex 39B of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12.17 PM IST on November 16.  More

By: Gadgets 360 | 12 August 2022 | NDTV

 The most popular theory about the formation of the Moon is that it is the result of a collision between Earth and another celestial object. Now, a study has suggested that the Moon may have a deeper relationship with the Earth.   More

Editor: Amit Chaturvedi | 27 July 2022 | NDTV

 Scientists have identified thermally stable locations in lunar pits that they think could one day act as shelters when more and more researchers reach the Moon to expedite efforts to colonise Earth's satellite.   More

Editor:  Bill Keeter  | 12 May 2022 | NASA

  “This fundamental plant growth research is also a key example of how NASA is working to unlock agricultural innovations that could help us understand how plants might overcome stressful conditions in food-scarce areas here on Earth.”    More

Editor: Bill Steigerwald   | 03 August 2021 | NASA

  Recently, a pair of NASA studies identified the most likely locations to find pieces of mantle on the surface, providing a map for future lunar sample return missions such as those under NASA’s Artemis program. If collected and analyzed, these fragments from deep within the Moon can provide a better understanding of how the Moon, the Earth, and many other solar system worlds evolved. More

ESA

 With civilisation comes roads, and that is going to be especially true on the Moon, just to keep the dust away. Lunar dust is ultra-fine, abrasive and clingy. In the Apollo era, dust clogged equipment and eroded spacesuits.  More

By: Debra Kamin | TheNewYorkTimes

Half a century ago, the astronauts of Apollo 17 spent three days on that pockmarked orb, whose gravitational pull tugs not just on our oceans but our imaginations. For 75 hours, the astronauts moonwalked in their spacesuits and rode in a lunar rover, with humanity watching on television sets 240,000 miles away. More

By:  Leonard David | SPACE.com

As NASA's Artemis Program moves forward, so too do long-term plans by small and large firms, academia, along with international space agencies.That was in evidence at the twenty-third meeting of the Space Resources Roundtable, held here last month at the Colorado School of Mines.  More

By: VICTOR TANGERMANN  | THE BYTE

   China is planning to kick off work on a Moon base using bricks made of lunar soil within the next five years, state-run news outlet CGTN reports, a sign the country isn't wasting any time in putting boots on the ground and establishing a permanent presence on the lunar surface. More

By: Richard Hollingham | BBC

  The handful of astronauts who have set foot on the Moon spent as little as a day on the surface. How do you build a settlement that will last for years?   More

By: Kristin Houser | Freethink

 The surface of the moon has been mapped — but the world below it is still largely a mystery.

Based on satellite data, scientists suspect that the moon is riddled with subterranean tunnels and caves, which could be ideal settings for future lunar colonies.  More

By: Craig Freudenrich, Ph.D.| HowStuffWorks (image credits: EarthSky)

From anyplace on Earth, the clearest thing in the night sky is usually the moon, Earth's only natural satellite and the nearest celestial object (240,250 miles or 384,400 km away).  More

By: Marshall Brain| HowStuffWorks (image credits:NASA)

Anyone who grew up with the Apollo moon launches in the 1970s, along with the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" (which premiered in 1968), was left with the impression that there would be c­olonies on the moon any day now. More