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  • Chang鈥檈-4 ready for attempted farside landing
    From Inside Outer Space: The state-run China Daily reports January 1st that the country鈥檚 Chang鈥檈 4 robotic probe is expected to land on the South Pole鈥揂itken basin on the Moon鈥檚 farside sometime between Wednesday and Thursday, citing
  • Photo of Harrison Schmitt
    From CU 麻豆影院 Today: Apollo astronaut visits campus, shares tales from the moon This week, Harrison 鈥淛ack鈥 Schmitt, an Apollo-era astronaut and the last person to set foot on the moon, gave a group of CU 麻豆影院 students the chance to see
  • Nature Illustration for How to Build a Moonbase
     From Nature: Next year, astronaut Matthias Maurer expects to walk on the surface of the Moon 鈥 but without the hassles of a rocket flight, zero-gravity nausea and a risky landing. Instead he鈥檒l stroll close to home in a leafy meadow near
  • Lockheed Martin's concept of a reusable, crewed lunar lander would take astronauts from a moon-orbiting space station down to the lunar surface
    From NBC News: Before humans venture to Mars, NASA wants to send astronauts back to the moon 鈥 and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has developed a new lunar lander concept designed to shuttle space flyers between a moon-orbiting space station and
  • Artist illustration of Lockheed Martin's lunar lander
    From Space News: Bremen, Germany 鈥 As NASA gears up to support work on lunar lander designs, Lockheed Martin released details Oct. 3 about a proposed reusable human lunar lander that leverages technology used on the Orion spacecraft and concepts
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    From the Washington Examiner: Late last year, President Trump announced a new 鈥 and expensive 鈥 mission for NASA: Return Americans to the moon, then reach Mars and planets beyond and do it in collaboration with private-sector partnerships. The
  • Dr. Jack Burns Moon background
    From the Daily Camera: University of Colorado researchers are planning to put a satellite in orbit around the moon to observe what they call the universe鈥檚 鈥渄ark ages鈥 鈥 an era just 15 million to 30 million years after the Big Bang, before the first
  • Timeline of the Universe
    From CU 麻豆影院 Today: The far side of the moon could give CU 麻豆影院 researchers an unprecedented look back at the early 鈥渄ark ages鈥 of the universe before the first stars had begun to flare into existence. NASA recently picked the Dark Ages
  • NASA logo
    From NASA: Section 1 - Forward to the Moon, Mars and Beyond and Section 2 - Americans in Lunar Orbit and on the Lunar Surface are particulary relevant to NESS projects. See the full report and other sections below. Section 1 - Forward to the
  • DAPPER Concept
    From NASA: NASA has selected nine proposals to study using small satellites, or SmallSats, for advanced astronomical space-based observations. The proposed SmallSat studies are a fraction of the size, weight, and cost of a typical space-bound
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