Moon Monday
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.
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.
Moon Monday
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.
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How NASA has planned to keep Artemis II astronauts safe throughout their Moon mission
Moon Monday #260: Safety planning spans all phases and aspects of the crewed lunar mission, weaved into hardware, operations, and astronaut training. 🦺
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Moon Monday #259: Lunarbound astronauts enter quarantine as Artemis II launch approaches
Plus mission updates.
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Moon Monday #257: NASA preps to send astronauts to Luna
Plus mission updates.
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Achievements and shortfalls in global lunar exploration in 2025
Moon Monday #255: Capturing the state of the world’s lunar exploration efforts this year.
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Moon Monday #251: Prepping to live on Luna via analogs on Earth
Plus mission updates and more memes.
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Moon Monday #250: One small step, mission updates, and a much needed giant leap
Welcome to the 250th edition of my Moon Monday blog+newsletter! 🚀🌕 One small step: About two months ago, Moon Monday crossed 10,000 subscribers. I did not announce it until now because I wanted to celebrate it in some way. Having readers and supporters be truly spread around the world
Articles
A giant leap in orbital imagery is what we need to realize advanced Moon missions
At over 1.6 petabytes, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission hosts by far the largest dataset from any planetary science spacecraft ever launched. LRO’s high-resolution lunar imagery and topographic data has been the bedrock for selecting landing sites of most Moon missions launched this century from around
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Moon Monday #248: The one that starts with a meme
China preps complex Chang’e 7 mission to study lunar water while US Artemis III rejigs.
