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Moon Monday #242: Artemis II advances, and so does Long March 10 🔥

Plus mission updates.

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Chandrayaan 4 will bring unique Moon materials—and maybe a giant scientific leap for India

Moon Monday #241 and Indian Space Progress #31

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No, Starship’s latest success doesn’t favor the US over China in landing humans on Luna | Moon Monday #240

Plus mission updates.

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Our Moon is valuable even beyond itself | Moon Monday #239

And how science does not exist in a (lunar) vacuum.

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Moon Monday #238: The long march to Luna continues

Plus Artemis updates.

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Moon Monday #237: China completes large lander test in latest milestone to put humans on the Moon

Reviewing all recent advances from China as it prepares to perform crewed Moon missions. Plus more mission updates.

US Artemis

Moon Monday #236: A third orbiter-lander-rover trio to fire-and-fly

I’m thrilled to welcome Astrolab as a continuing yearly sponsor of my Moon Monday blog+newsletter! California-based Venturi Astrolab Inc. (Astrolab) is developing the large multi-purpose rovers of FLEX and FLIP for advanced exploration of our Moon this decade and next. Through FLEX, Astrolab leads one of the three

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Moon Monday #235: Artemis and other mission updates

Read to the end for a jolly Jovian update!

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Explore our Moon’s wild places and wonderful samples | Moon Monday #234

A special early edition of Moon Monday for International Moon Day, July 20.

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Moon Monday #233: Visualizing a new Moon based on scientific discoveries by China’s Chang’e 6 mission

Highlighting all major findings with a visual that lets you picture the scientific value the Chinese have added to humanity’s exploration of our Moon.

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Moon Monday #232: Still free mission updates

And encouraging information sharing.

US Artemis

Moon Monday #231: Achievements and shortfalls in Moon exploration this half year

A review of notable developments by country or region.