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The Moon Daily Editorial Team produces Moon Daily's coverage of lunar exploration and science. We report on Artemis, landers and the Gateway, commercial lunar payloads, and the science of lunar geology, regolith and water ice. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Moon Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

NASA releases video of the far side of the Moon

Washington (UPI) Feb 8, 2015 - NASA has released a video showing what it looks like on the side of the moon humans can't see from Earth.

Feb 8, 2015

LRO finds lunar hydrogen more abundant on Moon’s pole-facing slopes

Washington DC (SPX) Feb 05, 2015 - Space travel is difficult and expensive - it would cost thousands of dollars to launch a bottle of water to the moon. The recent discovery of hydrogen-bearing molecules, possibly including water, on

Feb 5, 2015

Service module of China’s lunar orbiter enters 127-minute orbit

Beijing (XNA) Jan 14, 2015 - The service module of China's unmanned test lunar orbiter entered a 127-minute orbit on Tuesday after three orbital transfers since Sunday. To decelerate the craft enough for it enter its targ

Jan 14, 2015

Service Module of Chinese Probe Enters Lunar Orbit

Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 13, 2015 - The service module of China's unmanned test lunar spacecraft successfully entered orbit in Sunday after slowing down, the Beijing Aerospace Control Center reported. According to instruction, t

Jan 13, 2015

Chinese spacecraft to return to moon’s orbit

Beijing (XNA) Jan 06, 2015 - The service module of China's unmanned lunar orbiter is scheduled to return to the moon's orbit in mid-January for more tests to prepare for the country's next lunar probe mission, Chang'e-5.

Jan 6, 2015

Russian Company Proposes to Build Lunar Base

Moscow, Russia (Sputnik) Jan 02, 2015 - A privately owned Russian company called Lin Industrial has announced that it is capable of constructing a lunar base. The projected cost of constructing a first-stage lunar outpost, followed

Jan 2, 2015

‘Shooting the Moon’ with Satellite Laser Ranging

Washington DC (SPX) Dec 23, 2014 - Laser ranging from Earth to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was a milestone in the 50-year history of satellite laser ranging. Launched in 2009 and still orbiting the moon in 2014, LRO was

Dec 23, 2014

Moon Express testing compact lunar lander at Kennedy

Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Dec 16, 2014 - NASA is working with U.S. industry to develop the capabilities and cutting-edge technologies that will help send astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit. To achieve this goal, space travelers will need th

Dec 16, 2014

UK Plans to Drill Into Moon, Explore Feasibility of Manned Base

Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 09, 2014 - UK scientists have put forward goals for the country's recently-proposed Lunar Mission One program, the BBC reported on Monday. The researchers plan to drill 100 meters below the surface of th

Dec 9, 2014

Why we should mine the moon

London UK (The Conversation) Dec 01, 2014 - To date, all human economic activity has depended on the material and energy resources of a single planet; understandably, perhaps. It is conceivable though that future advances in space exploration

Dec 1, 2014

Carnegie Mellon Unveils Lunar Rover Andy

Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Nov 27, 2014 - Carnegie Mellon University has unveiled Andy, a four-wheeled robot designed to scramble up steep slopes and survive the temperature swings and high radiation encountered while exploring the moon's p

Nov 27, 2014

Young Volcanoes on the Moon

Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 26, 2014 - Back in 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts orbiting the Moon photographed something very odd. Researchers called it Ina, and it looked like the aftermath of a volcanic eruption. There's nothing odd about

Nov 26, 2014

Russia Preparing Joint Moon Exploration Agreement With EU

Moscow, Russia (Sputnik) Nov 25, 2014 - Scientists from Russia and the European Union are preparing an agreement on joint exploration of the Moon, Lev Zelyony, director of the Space Research Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences, s

Nov 25, 2014

U.K. group to crowd-source funding for moon mission

London (UPI) Nov 19, 2014 - A group in the United Kingdom aims to launch a lunar probe and study the moon using money raised on crowd-funding website Kickstarter.

Nov 19, 2014

After Mars, India space chief aims for the moon

New Delhi (AFP) Nov 11, 2014 - India now has its sights set on low-budget missions to the moon and the sun after becoming the first country in Asia to reach Mars, the head of its space agency said Tuesday.

Nov 11, 2014

China examines the three stages of lunar test run

Beijing (XNA) Nov 04, 2014 - China's experimental lunar orbiter, which blasted off just over a week ago, entered the moon's orbit as part of an eight-day mission. The trial run paves the way for a mission in 2017 to collect lun

Nov 4, 2014