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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 receive data

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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: Current mission updates and future governance questions

* On February 25, NASA rolled back the SLS rocket and its attached Orion spacecraft from the vehicle’s launchpad at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to its assembly building about seven kilometers away. Technicians then replaced a dislodged seal in a fueling interface of the rocket’s

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NASA falters in communications yet again with Lunar Trailblazer failure | Moon Monday #265

Plus: Parallel developments show how open access NASA is when the agency is at its best.

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Everything you should know and track about NASA’s Apollo-style Artemis rejig in its chase of China to the Moon

NASA is also borrowing the “manned” from Apollo while at it. | Moon Monday #264

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China conducts a multi-element test unlike any other nation in firm march to Luna | Moon Monday #262

Plus NASA Artemis updates.

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Moon Monday #261: A shortfall in Artemis II testing and NASA’s communications

Dear NASA, China’s space missions exist too. So do your own planetary science missions.