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Moon Monday #71: NASA’s budget, Artemis mission delays, exploring Moon rocks in 3D, and more updates
NASA’s latest budget request finally acknowledges overlooked parts of Artemis The U.S. Presidential FY 2023 budget request for NASA released on March 28 proposes nearly $26 billion in funding for the space agency, an 8% increase over the amount approved by the U.S. Congress for FY 2022.
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Gallery: Just some weird yet wonderful features on our Moon
This is the third blog post in a curated gallery series touring pretty sights on our Moon, following views of marvelous mountains and lovely lava channels. This time around I’m picking sights which either aren’t a popular geologic feature or are just plain weird, and all of which
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Moon Monday #70: NASA’s brilliant move for crewed Moon landings, and all lunar updates from last week
NASA’s new plan to keep sending humans to the Moon On March 23, NASA announced a change in strategy for one of the most important pieces of sustaining human presence on the Moon—ferrying Artemis astronauts to and fro the lunar surface after the first crewed landing on a
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My articles on our search for alien life
Countless worlds beyond Earth are brimming with possibilities of life. Our exploration of the Solar System and the exploding field of exoplanets have already expanded our notions of places where life might arise and take solace—from Earth-like planets to icy moons with underground oceans. Here are articles and notes
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Moon Monday #69: NASA’s Moon rocket crawls to the launchpad; confusing Artemis funding; dedicated lunar communications infrastructure; and more updates
Several readers told me they like Moon Monday’s new focus on providing more context on major developments rather than being too brief in order to cover all developments. I’m doubling down on the same with this issue by debuting a new format while also making sure to not
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Our two-faced Moon
Why is our Moon's farside so different from its nearside?
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Moon Monday #68: NASA Artemis Science teams, Canada's robotic arm for lunar Gateway, and more updates
NASA shared new details on science planning for its first crewed Artemis Moon landing and yet apart from a few tweets I didn’t notice anyone covering it! So this week’s Highlight section is the coverage itself instead of a summary. Highlight & Science At the Artemis Town Hall
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How we test spacecraft before launch
The array of space-simulating test facilities a spacecraft tours through before it can blast off of Earth.
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Moon Monday #67: NASA Artemis concerns, ESA contracts Thales Alenia for future technologies, and more updates
I repeat: To minimize damage in the Ukraine crisis, identify something specific you can do to constructively contribute instead of hollow posting on social platforms. One option is to donate specifically to help people displaced from their homes. Highlight At a March 1 hearing, members of the U.S. Congress
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Moon Monday #66: ESA plans commercial Moon landings, initial NASA Artemis launches near, and more updates
If you’re reading this, take a moment to acknowledge the freedom that you have, and the privilege to indulge in the finer aspects of a topic not yet core to living itself. Just as I (must) acknowledge the sheer affordance of publishing this issue of Moon Monday, even if
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Moon Monday #65: ESA’s Moonlight infrastructure plans, Astrobotic’s progress on key NASA mission, Apollo 17 landing site in 3D, and more updates
Highlight This section is superseded by Moon Monday #98: ESA’s Moonlight plans forge forward In May 2021, ESA funded two consortia of companies to design and analyze feasibility of a “lunar communications and navigation service” by end of 2022 as part of the agency’s Moonlight initiative. Such a