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Canada ‘going to the Moon’: Trudeau
Ottawa (AFP) Feb 28, 2019 - Canada will join NASA's space mission to put an orbiter around the Moon in a few years, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday.
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Israel’s first Moon mission blasts off from Florida
Washington (AFP) Feb 22, 2019 - An unmanned rocket took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday night carrying Israel's Beresheet spacecraft, aiming to make history twice: as the first private-sector landing on the Moon, and the first from the Jewish state.
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Ingredients for water could be made on surface of moon, a chemical factory
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 21, 2019 - When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind careens onto the Moon's surface at 450 kilometers per second (or nearly 1 million miles per hour), they enrich the Moon's surface in ingred
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SpaceIL teams with SpaceX for first first private moon lander mission
Washington (UPI) Feb 20, 2019 - The world's first private moon lander mission is scheduled to be carried into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Friday.
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Apollo gave America a reason to dream
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 19, 2019 - The Apollo program gave a nation reasons to dream, it inspired its generation and generations to come, in those years Space flight was the absolute symbol of American resolve, but interest in space
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Russia mulls offering US upgraded space vehicle for lunar orbit station supplies
Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 18, 2019 - Russia is planning to offer the United States to deliver supplies to the future international lunar orbital station with the use of the modernized Progress-L cargo spacecraft, a Russian space indust
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IAU names landing site of Chinese Chang’e-4 probe on Far Side of Moon
Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 18, 2019 - Five sites on the far side of the Moon now have official names, including Chang'e-4's landing site. The names have significance in Chinese culture, reflecting the background of the probe's team.
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Israel’s first lunar mission to launch this week
Tel Aviv (AFP) Feb 18, 2019 - Israel is to launch its first moon mission this week, sending an unmanned spacecraft to collect data to be shared with NASA, organisers said Monday.
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Russia mulls delivering takeoff-landing system to Moon in 2029
Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 15, 2019 - Russia is planning to launch the Don super-heavy carrier rocket in 2029 to deliver a takeoff/landing complex to the Moon, a space industry source told Sputnik. The goal of the mission will be
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NASA heading back to Moon soon, and this time to stay
Washington (AFP) Feb 14, 2019 - NASA is accelerating plans to return Americans to the Moon, and this time, the US space agency says it will be there to stay.
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China’s lander and rover power down for lunar night
Beijing (Sputnik) Feb 13, 2019 - Last week, NASA released unique satellite reconnaissance photos of the landing site of the Chinese lunar mission, which made history last month by achieving humanity's first-ever successful soft lan
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Spaceflight to launch first privately funded lunar lander
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 - Spaceflight Inc has announced it will launch two payloads on its first rideshare mission to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO). The mission is scheduled for no earlier than mid-February 2019 aboard
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Russia pencils in first manned lunar mission for 2031
Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 11, 2019 - Russia's first ever manned lunar mission is expected to land on the Moon in 2031, according to a document prepared by the Russian Central Research Institute of Machine Building (TsNIIMash) and obtai
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NASA Administrator says Agency plans to ‘go to the Moon and stay’
Washington DC (Sputnik) Feb 11, 2019 - Jim Bridenstine, the space agency's administrator, said that NASA plans to return people to the Moon and have astronauts explore more of the surface for longer periods. The NASA administrator
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NASA-Industry Partnerships Can Support Lunar Exploration, Reports Say
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 - Renewed interest in exploration of the Moon has the potential to benefit lunar science greatly and could evolve into a program facilitated by partnerships between commercial companies and NASA's Sci
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NASA seeks US partners to develop reusable systems for lunar missions
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 - As the next major step to return astronauts to the Moon under Space Policy Directive-1, NASA announced plans on Dec. 13 to work with American companies to design and develop new reusable systems for