NASA's polar ice experiment paves way for future moon missions
NASA's Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) is preparing to explore the moon's subsurface and analyze where ...
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NASA Faces The Promise And Peril Of Moondust
As NASA plans to establish a permanent Moon base via its Artemis program, it is looking to avoid the dangers of lunar ...
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NASA’s PRIME-1: Paving the Way for Lunar Exploration
NASA’s Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) is preparing for a lunar mission. PRIME-1 will investigate the ...
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NASA’s powerful moon mining robot could dig 10,000 kg of soil in a single lunar day
Its key task would be to efficiently mine and transport lunar regolith – the loose rocky material covering the Moon's surface ...
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Snaps a Breathtaking Earth Selfie on Its Way to the Moon
Blue Ghost has left Earth’s orbit, carrying NASA’s science to the Moon. Instruments are performing well, including a ...
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From pandas to lunar soil: China's 'moon diplomacy'
Historically, China has wielded panda diplomacy as a means of fostering goodwill. But now, the new benchmark of diplomatic ...
From tale of 'Chang'e flying to the moon' to legend of 'Chang'e' lunar exploration
The 15th day of the first month on the Chinese lunar calendar marks the Lantern Festival. The moon is full in the sky, and ...
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Athena, Next U.S. Commercial Moon Lander, Is Set for Spectacular Lunar Science
In partnership with NASA, the Intuitive Machines lander Athena will send a water-seeking drill, a pogo-sticking crater probe ...
Blue Origin puts a lunar spin on suborbital research flight of New Shepard rocket ship
For the first time, Blue Origin put its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship through a couple of minutes' worth of moon-level ...
Two lunar landers are on the way to the Moon after SpaceX’s double moonshot
Blue Ghost's final descent to the Moon is tentatively scheduled for March 2. The target landing site is in Mare Crisium, an ancient 350-mile-wide (560-kilometer) impact basin in the northeast part of ...
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Spacecraft Takes Weeks to Build Up Courage to Leave Earth Orbit, Now En Route to the Moon
American space agency NASA announced that the Blue Ghost lander is now on its way to the Moon, arrival in orbit expected ...