New Delhi (Sputnik) Feb 08, 2018 - India's space agency, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), is prepping for its second mission to the moon, which is scheduled for blast off around April 2018. The objective for the v
Orlando FL (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 - UCF's Phil Metzger and Julie Brisset from the Florida Space Institute recently landed a contract to develop a model to mine the moon for water. Data suggests the moon has water locked away in
Beijing (AFP) Jan 26, 2018 - Chinese students spent 200 continuous days in a lunar lab in Beijing, state media said Friday, as the country prepares for its long-term goal of putting people on the moon.
Paris (ESA) Jan 25, 2018 - Imagine sending a spacecraft the size of an airline cabin bag to the Moon - what would you have it do? ESA issued that challenge to European teams last year, and two winners have now been chosen.
Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 24, 2018 - Russia is set to spend the next decade working on a potential new station that might be built if the International Space Station (ISS) project is terminated, as well as a spacecraft capable of makin
Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 17, 2018 - Space equipment manufacturer Russian Space Systems declassified on Tuesday a report on unmanned lunar rover Lunokhod-2 and its 1973 Moon landing mission. The document describes all aspects of
Mountain View CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 - The SETI Institute and the Mars Institute have announced the discovery of small pits in a large crater near the North Pole of the Moon, which may be entrances to an underground network of lava tubes
New Delhi (Sputnik) Jan 11, 2018 - TeamIndus - India's first private aerospace startup that is contending for the Google XPrize, has failed to garner adequate financing for its moon mission. Its inability to pay $35 million to Antrix
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 05, 2018 - American astronauts aboard the International Space Station told VOA on Wednesday that their excitement about recently announced plans to restore U.S. manned space missions to lunar orbit was eclipse
Beijing (XNA) Jan 02, 2018 - 2018 could see a breakthrough in lunar exploration: China is planning a mission that, if successful, will see a space landing on the far side of the moon for the first time. The first part of
Beijing (XNA) Dec 26, 2017 - China will solicit 20,000 messages which will be sent into space by a relay satellite for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe, according to China's Lunar and Deep Space Exploration Center. The relay sat
Rome (SPX) Dec 17, 2017 - Thales Alenia Space has signed three contracts in the frame of Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP-2) activities with Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Orbital-ATK, to develop c
Miami (AFP) Dec 14, 2017 - US President Donald Trump's decision this week to return Americans to the Moon makes sense as a way to develop technology to one day reach Mars, but only if Congress allocates the money, experts say.
Dallas TX (SPX) Dec 13, 2017 - NASA recorded thousands of hours of audio from the Apollo lunar missions, yet most of us have only been able to hear the highlights. The agency recorded all communications between the astronau
Washington DC (AFP) Dec 12, 2017 - US President Donald Trump directed NASA on Monday to send Americans to the Moon for the first time in decades, a move he said would help prepare for a future Mars trip. This time we will not
Beijing (XNA) Dec 12, 2017 - Scientists are mulling a robot moon station, Chinese space experts said on Tuesday. The base can conduct bigger, more complicated research and experiments, according to space officials who ann
