Lots of activity in space this weekend: ** Moon: China launched on Friday the Chang’e-4 mission to the far side of the Moon. The 3,780 kg package includes a lander (1,200 kg), a rover (140 kg). This will be the first […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
[ Update: The Moon rocks sold near the top of the expected range of bids: Soviet robot-retrieved moon rocks sell for $855,000 at Sotheby’s | collectSPACE Sotheby’s on Thursday (Nov. 29) auctioned the only known pieces of Earth’s natural satellite […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Airbus, Blue Origin, ESA, and some other heavyweight companies and organizations are backing a new technical competition program called The Moon Race: The Moon Race competition is a global initiative founded by Airbus and international partners, aiming to boost the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest episode of TMRO:Space is now available on line: Masten’s Lunar Ambitions – Orbit 11.34 – TMRO Dave Masten of Masten Space Systems joins SpaceMike to talk about his current fleet of vehicle and plans to do more than just flags […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bob Zimmerman tells me his book, Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, which tells the dramatic history of the first mission to send humans beyond earth orbit, is now available as an unabridged audiobook. From the press release: This year marks the fiftieth […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
** Paul Wooster of SpaceX talked at the recent Mars Society conference about the company’s plans for sending people to Mars by 2024: ** SpaceX’s Spacesuit, up close and personal – Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut, describes SpaceX spacesuits during […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention starts tomorrow in Pasadena, California and will last through Sunday. Check out the schedule (pdf) packed with keynote talks and multiple parallel session tracks. There are over 40 different sessions listed in the Conference flyer (pdf). I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Deposits of water in craters on the polar regions of the Moon has been indicated since the early 1990s when the Clementine probe saw radar reflections from the surface that were consistent with water ice. The Lunar Prospector mission not long after reported neutron scattering data […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The non-profit volunteer Israeli organization SpaceIL announced last week that they had contracted SpaceX to launch a small spacecraft in December on a Falcon 9 rocket . The craft will land on the Moon in February: We Have a Launch and Landing […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Astronaut, Moon walker and artist, Alan Bean has passed away at the age of 86 following an illness that came on two weeks ago while traveling : Alan Bean Family Obituary Statement | NASA Bean was the lunar pilot on the Apollo […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a video tour of important sites on the Moon as seen in the imagery and sensor data collected by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) since it reached the Moon in September of 2009: NASA — A Tour of our Moon From […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pink Floyd notwithstanding, there is no “Dark side of the Moon” any more than there is a dark side of the earth. The Moon rotates just like earth does, continually changing which half of the sphere is in sunlight and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jonny Smith of the Fully Charged Show on line program visited the Part Time Scientists group in Berlin, which is partnering with Audi and Vodafone on a private mission to the Moon. In this video, Smith gets to drive the Audi […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A cool video from NASA showing the phases of the Moon for every hour throughout 2018: This 4K visualization shows the Moon’s phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2018, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. Two ‘supermoons’ will ring in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Trump administration recently announced that the Moon is now the primary goal for NASA’s human spaceflight program. While the initiative calls for NASA to develop “an innovative and sustainable program of exploration with commercial and international partners”, it’s very likely the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Indian musician Ram Sampath has composed a song dedicated to the Team Indus lunar lander project. The song is performed by Sona Mohapatra and the band Sanam. Read the background story to the TeamIndus anthem. Team Indus is a finalist in the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the latest episode of TMRO.tv: CEO of WayPaver Foundation Michael Mealling joins us to talk about what they are doing to remove obstacles in the way of lunar exploration and settlement. Space news topics covered: Rocket Lab launches […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The MoonWatcher project aims to raise $150,000 to fund a small satellite that would broadcast hi-definition video of the lunar surface: MoonWatcher: A 24/7 Live Video of the Moon for Everyone by MoonWatcher — Kickstarter MoonWatcher will offer spectacular views of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Eleven Magazine sponsored a contest called MOONTOPIA, which invited people to submit designs “for a self-sufficient lunar colony for living, working, researching and space tourism”. There were hundreds of entrants and they chose one winner and 8 runners-up. See descriptions of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The ARRL ( American Radio Relay League) recently sponsored the “Moon bounce” EME Contest in which contestants demonstrate “Two-way communications via the earth-moon-earth [EME] path on any authorized amateur frequency above 50 MHz”. One entrant did his Moon bouncing from his […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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