By Jatan Mehta | Coverage, with context, of NASA’s Artemis program to return humans to the Moon after Apollo. This time to (hopefully) stay.
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NASA advances science planning for the historic return of humans to the Moon In a historic return since Apollo, NASA aims to land astronauts on our Moon again mid-decade with Artemis III. What science instruments will they bring along to deploy on the Moon’s south pole for advancing our
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I only recently learnt that months were originally called moonths. I’m so going to say moonths now every chance I get. The word has been duly added to my device dictionaries. 🌝 NASA selects Blue Moon to compete with SpaceX Lunar Starship for crewed Artemis lunar landings NASA has selected
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I’m stoked to share that Epsilon3 is continuing their sponsorship of Moon Monday for another year! 🌗 Epsilon3 is a web-based platform for managing complex spacecraft testing and operational procedures. Designed to save time and reduce risk in building space mission hardware, Epsilon3 is used by engineers and hardware operators
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Canada ramps up its lunar exploration ambitions On March 28, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced long-term budgets to accelerate the country’s lunar exploration endeavors, summarized below in context: * Thanks to Canada contributing the Canadarm3 robotics servicing system to the Gateway, an upcoming NASA-led international lunar orbital habitat, the
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The astronauts who will fly around our Moon soon In what felt like an Apple-esque presentation, NASA announced today the four astronauts who will travel around our Moon and back as part of the 10-day Artemis II mission: * Reid Wiseman (Commander) * Victor Glover (Pilot) * Christina Hammock Koch (Mission Specialist) * Jeremy
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NASA’s Artemis Town Hall briefing at the 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) on March 15 announced Dr. Noah Petro as the Science Lead for Artemis III. The historic mission aims to land humans back on the Moon by mid-decade. Petro is currently the project scientist for NASA’
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Okay, two things before we unpack some lovely lunar vibes: 1. So much happened in lunar exploration last week that this was one difficult edition to concisely contextualize. What an amazing problem to have! The immense pace with which we’re building for our Moon was unthinkable just a decade
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US scientists urge NASA to plan LRO successor A specialized team of US scientists called CLOC-SAT, part of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG), has released a report urging NASA to plan a replacement for the 2009-launched Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) in order to support the increasingly important, upcoming NASA(
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Please consider supporting earthquake relief efforts in Turkey and Syria: Donate ♡ Mission updates * The NASA-funded and Advanced Space-led CAPSTONE lunar orbiter was unable to receive commands from January 26. An automatic command-loss timer rebooting the spacecraft on February 6 resolved the issue. All the while teams have been preparing to
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Planning the science on NASA’s first Artemis crewed Moon landing mission NASA aims to land astronauts on the Moon mid-decade with Artemis III. While the agency’s selection of SpaceX’s Starship lunar lander and commercial spacesuits—along with the standard Artemis mission inclusions of the SLS rocket and
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The success of NASA’s Artemis I Moon mission, and the amazing views of our Moon from its Orion spacecraft, inspired me to write a poem. A blaze aloft at night put a glimmer of hope flying past the desolation It ignites around Moonshine, so we can all dazzle at
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Orion comes back home with dreams of a crewed Moon landing Like the skip of a stone on water, NASA’s crew-capable Artemis I Orion capsule incoming from the Moon performed an autonomously guided bounced reentry into Earth’s atmosphere on December 11, subsequently descending with aid from its mighty
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