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From Science: In the undulating, dust-covered Descartes Highlands, 380 kilometers southwest of Tranquility Base, where Apollo 11 landed half a century ago, a lonely gold-plated telescope has sat inert since 24 April 1972, when Apollo 16 astronauts
From Global News: It’s been half a century since humans stepped foot on the moon, and now multiple nations and for-profit companies are racing to go back. Watch the video.
From ABC Action News: There’s a group of students at the Â鶹ӰԺ working on a project of astronomical proportions. They’re building a prototype lunar rover that could help us understand the origins of the universe. “This
Video from Reuters TV: Watch this video of telerobotic deployment of low radio frequency telescopes on the lunar farside featuring a number of our students at University of Colorado.
From Reuters Science News: BOULDER, Colo. (Reuters) - As the United States races to put humans back on the moon for the first time in 50 years, a NASA-funded lab in Colorado aims to send robots there to deploy telescopes that will look far into our
From IEEE Spectrum: For decades, astronomers have gazed up at the moon and dreamed about what they would do with its most unusual real estate. Because the moon is gravitationally locked to our planet, the same side of the moon always faces us.
From the Daily Camera: NASA has announced a dozen science and technology payloads that will be at the core of the nation’s mission to put humans back on the moon by 2024, and two of them are led by investigators based in Â鶹ӰԺ, while a third
From NASA: NASA successfully demonstrated Tuesday the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort system can outrun a speeding rocket and pull astronauts to safety during an emergency during launch. The test is another milestone in the agency’s preparation for
From Lockheed Martin/PRNewswire: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., July 2, 2019 The critical launch abort system for NASA's Orion spacecraft was put to its hardest test today, and it demonstrated its capability to pull the crew module and future
From Berkeley News: Scavenging spare parts and grabbing off-the-shelf hardware, University of California, Berkeley, space scientists are in a sprint to build scientific instruments that will land on the moon in a mere two years. NASA announced