
One giant step: Moon race hots up
Paris (AFP) Aug 10, 2023 - Russia's plan to launch its lunar lander on Friday is the latest in an international push to return to the Moon that includes the world's top powers but also new players.
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Paris (AFP) Aug 10, 2023 - Russia's plan to launch its lunar lander on Friday is the latest in an international push to return to the Moon that includes the world's top powers but also new players.
Aug 10, 2023

New Delhi (XNA) Aug 09, 2023 - The injection of Chandrayaan-3 into the lunar orbit and the subsequent moves marked a major milestone in India's ambitious $75-million lunar mission, experts said. The Indian Space Research Or
Aug 9, 2023

Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 09, 2023 - Dr. John Bennewitz, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been awarded a $650,000, 45-month Air Force
Aug 9, 2023

KSC, United States (AFP) Aug 8, 2023 - NASA's Artemis 3 mission, set to return humans to the Moon in 2025, might not involve a crewed landing after all, an official said Tuesday.
Aug 8, 2023

Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 08, 2023 - Earlier today, journalists from all over the world got to meet the Artemis II Crew and their Orion Crew Module, which will send them on a journey around the Moon and back to earth no earlier than No
Aug 8, 2023

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 07, 2023 - After a long hiatus of nearly fifty years, Russia is gearing up to return to the Moon with its Luna-25 lunar lander, setting the stage for a new era in lunar exploration. The Russian space age
Aug 7, 2023

Moscow (AFP) Aug 7, 2023 - Russia said Monday it plans to launch a lunar lander this week after multiple delays, hoping to return to the Moon for the first time in nearly fifty years.
Aug 7, 2023

New Delhi (AFP) Aug 5, 2023 - India's latest space mission entered the Moon's orbit on Saturday ahead of the country's second attempted lunar landing, as its cut-price space programme seeks to reach new heights.
Aug 5, 2023

Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 04, 2023 - NASA's LunaH-Map (Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper) mission, a briefcase-sized lunar orbiter that launched as a ride share on NASA's Artemis I mission last year, has ceased operations after successfully
Aug 4, 2023

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 03, 2023 - Working together without direct human input, three rovers each the size of a carry-on bag will map the lunar surface in 3D, using cameras and ground-penetrating radar. NASA is sending a trio o
Aug 3, 2023

Vladivostok, Russia (XNA) Aug 03, 2023 - Russia's first lunar station in nearly 50 years, Luna-25, will fly to the Moon in the early morning of Aug 11, local media reported on Thursday. According to Russia's RIA Novosti, the launch d
Aug 3, 2023

Houston TX (SPX) Jul 28, 2023 - Intuitive Machines, Inc. (Nasdaq: LUNR, LUNRW) reports that NASA's Space Technology and Mission Directorate (STMD) has awarded a $15 million Tipping Point initiative award to the Zeno Power-led team
Jul 28, 2023

Washington DC (SPX) Jul 27, 2023 - NASA has selected 11 U.S. companies to develop technologies that could support long-term exploration on the Moon and in space for the benefit of all. The technologies range from lunar surface power
Jul 27, 2023

Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jul 27, 2023 - NASA's Artemis launch team conducted its first simulation for Artemis II, the first crewed mission under Artemis, on July 20 inside the Launch Control Center at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in
Jul 27, 2023

Washington DC (UPI) Jul 27, 2023 - Argentina has become the 28th nation to sign NASA's Artemis Accords, which establishes the guiding principles for space exploration.
Jul 27, 2023

Washington DC (UPI) Jul 25, 2023 - NASA has selected 11 companies to partner on space technology projects that will support the upcoming Artemis mission, which intends to return humans to the moon.
Jul 25, 2023