By Jatan Mehta | Coverage, with context, of NASAās Artemis and CLPS programs to return humans and robots to the Moon after Apollo. This time to (hopefully) stay.
Moon Monday
Hello from China! Iām at the four-day 2024 international Galaxy Forum, where I along with speakers from over 12 countries are discussing global plans on lunar exploration, science from the Moon, and cooperative approaches to those ends. This weekās Moon Monday thus includes several fresh, firsthand lunar updates
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Read to the end to see a reader gift made of processed lunar regolith.
Moon Monday
Thank you for having signed up for my no-award winning Moon Monday blog+newsletter! Its motivation was to exist because nothing like it did to capture the worldās march to the Moon. š If youāre one of the 8,000+ lunatics who enjoys this free curated community resource, you
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Dating farside volcanic samples, awaiting the next wave of landers, and disliking opaque orbital operations.
Moon Monday
Welcome to the 200th edition of my Moon Monday blog+newsletter!Ā šš Iād like to take this moment to highlight four things working on Moon Monday has enabled: 1. An extensive 4-year archive of curated and contextualized global lunar exploration developments, with embedded links to everything. All editions are completely
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Letās study Moonquakes to not let them shake a Moonbase.
US Artemis
First look at the Artemis Moonwalking suit Following Chinaās unveiling of its lunar spacesuit last month, Axiom Space has revealedĀ the latest design of its AxEMU suitĀ that astronauts will wear on NASAāsĀ crewed Artemis IIIĀ lunar surface mission later this decade. The first-time unveiling of the suit
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NASAās road to the Moon inches through Starship SpaceXās fifth launch of its fully integrated Starship Super HeavyĀ rocket onĀ October 13 was aĀ resounding success, with both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship second stage completing their flight as well as soft return objectives. With this
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You can now follow my articles on some non-questionable social networks that alsoĀ federate (interoperate): Flipboard, Mastodon and Bluesky. The hunt for water on the Moon continues US researchers find that permanently shadowed regions up to 77Ā° latitudeāwhich is outside the Moonās south poleācould host surface and
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You know how I remarked in the previous Moon Monday about having two feature stories instead of one to adequately contextualize big new developments? Well, this weekās Moon Monday has three! For Europe, China, and the US. š Europeās new test facility brings more of those lunar vibes on
US Artemis
A popular YouTube channel has worked with me to create another video based on my Moon Monday blog+newsletter, this time on the next three Moon landing missions by Intuitive Machines for NASA as part of the agencyās CLPS program. Note: I didnāt choose the video title. My
US Artemis
The latest effort to save VIPER Members of the US Congress are stepping up efforts in the ongoing scramble to save the VIPER rover mission, which was envisioned to uniquely study lunar water deposits. Specifically, representatives in the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology wrote an open letter to
