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Achievements and shortfalls in global lunar exploration this half year | Moon Monday #282
A contextualized overview of the world’s Moon exploration efforts.
US Artemis
By Jatan Mehta | Coverage, with context, of NASA’s Artemis and CLPS programs to return humans and robots to the Moon after Apollo. This time to (hopefully) stay.
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Smashing success: The time NASA figured out our Moon is cratered all the way down | Moon Monday #280
Plus: What the agency’s planning in the lead up to safe Apollo astronaut landings teaches us about preparing for the next frontier this century.
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Artemis III, test like you won’t fly?
Moon Monday #279: “Artemis updates inside”, like “intel inside”. All puns intended.
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What does Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket explosion mean for NASA’s Artemis program? A domino of timeline lapses and strategic failures.
Moon Monday #277: How quickly Blue flies New Glenn again, the timing and outcome of the first Mark 1 lander flight, and what NASA shares about the crewed Mark 2 are the key things to watch out for.
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What is pending for SpaceX Starship to be a Moonship for NASA astronauts? Nearly everything.
Moon Monday #276: NASA’s road to putting humans on the Moon through SpaceX Starship continues to face a receding sea of milestones to achieve.
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Moon Monday #274: Artemis updates and Japanese missions galore
Artemis updates * Science communicator Hank Green made this interactive website of photos spread across the timeline of the Artemis II lunar mission and flyby. * Among the technological checkpoints passed by Artemis II, the NASA-MIT-developed optical laser communications terminal on the Orion spacecraft was successfully used to transmit and
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With Artemis II done, challenges confront NASA to send astronauts on Artemis III and IV | Moon Monday #272
Key developments to watch out for this year as both China and the US aim to land humans on the Moon by the end of this decade.
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Did NASA’s Artemis II mission really do lunar science or go to the Moon for all humanity?
An unfortunate breakdown of too many giant leaps of imagination. | Moon Monday #271
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Artemis II astronauts gazed at our Moon with joy, curiosity, and reverence. Through finer robotic orbital views, so can you.
Thanks to our robotic explorers, and the great leveler that is the Internet, you too can “Copy, Moon joy.” | Moon Monday #270
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Why haven’t humans gone back to the Moon no longer a valid question thanks to NASA Artemis II lunar flyby
Plus: A poetic ode to our exploration of Luna | Moon Monday #269
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Ignition, not yet liftoff, of NASA’s ambitious Artemis Moonbase plan | Moon Monday #268
Plus: NASA in final prep to launch Artemis II astronauts around Luna.
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Moon Monday #266: Future governance questions and current mission updates
We can build cities on the Moon—but who will govern them? Amid a global lunar rush, will we land peaceful norms alongside our spacecraft? Last month SpaceX and its founder Elon Musk flipped their stance on the Moon from treating it as a distraction to positioning it as central
