Articles about Moon – Page 6 of 8

Moon Express brings in $12.5M in backing for its lunar lander and Florida facilities

Moon Express, which aims to start missions to the moon within the next couple of years, says it has raised… Read More

Arch Mission partners with Microsoft, University of Washington and Twist to send DNA library to moon

DNA-based data storage systems have been proposed as a theoretical way to preserve information for millennia on the moon, but… Read More

Japan’s ispace strikes deal with SpaceX for launches to the moon in 2020 and 2021

SpaceX has been signed up to provide rides to the moon for a pair of payloads built by ispace, a… Read More

SpaceX’s round-the-moon trip could have VR, ‘Space Bar’ and in-flight entertainment

It’s been only a day since SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled the plan to send Yusaku Maezawa and roughly half… Read More

Japan’s Yusaku Maezawa revealed as first customer for SpaceX trip around the moon

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk today introduced Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa as the first paying customer for a trip around the… Read More

SpaceX gets set to reveal its first customer for BFR flight around the moon and back

News Brief: A year and a half after saying it had two passengers signed up for a privately funded flight… Read More

Israeli moon lander to ride SpaceX rocket in Spaceflight’s first move beyond low Earth orbit

SpaceIL’s lunar lander is go for launch as a secondary payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that’s due to… Read More

ANA Holdings partners with Japan’s space agency on ‘Avatar X’ telepresence program

Telepresence robots on the moon and Mars? That’s the vision laid out for the partnership between ANA Holdings, the parent… Read More

Commercial branding on spacecraft? Five key points in NASA’s evolving space vision

Why can’t commercials be filmed on the International Space Station? How about astronaut endorsements of energy drinks or tennis shoes?… Read More

VP Mike Pence revs up NASA schedule for putting astronauts on station in lunar orbit

During a pep talk to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas, Vice President Mike Pence today highlighted what he saw… Read More

Fresh findings about water ice at moon’s poles boost prospects for lunar settlement

Newly published research lays out a map that traces water ice deposits at the poles of the moon — and points… Read More

Blue Origin’s lunar lander program wins a share of NASA’s ‘tipping-point’ tech awards

NASA is awarding $44 million to six commercial partners to support “tipping-point” technologies that range from lunar landing capabilities to… Read More

Moonrise, moonset and Mars: Photos hit the high points at Mount Rainier

MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. — Warm weather, clear skies and a full moon brought me out in search of… Read More

It’s prime time for watching Mars – plus a total lunar eclipse that you can see online

It’s no hoax: Mars is bigger and brighter in the night sky than it’s been at any time since 2003.… Read More

Life on the moon? It could have happened billions of years ago, astrobiologists say

The moon is one of the last places in the solar system you’d expect to find life today, but astrobiologists… Read More

To the moon? Israel’s SpaceIL says SpaceX will launch team’s lunar lander this year

News Brief: SpaceIL, an Israeli team that was once a competitor in the now-defunct Google Lunar X Prize, says it will have… Read More

Simulated moon dirt is turning up some real challenges for future lunar missions

RENTON, Wash. — When commercial ventures start setting up shop on the moon, they may well run into nasty clouds of… Read More

Buzz Aldrin shares latest space vision even as questions swirl about his state of mind

Buzz Aldrin wants people to know that he has some cool new ideas about how to get to the moon… Read More

NASA puts out the call for partners to build the first piece of Gateway space station

NASA has laid out its plan for acquiring the first piece of its successor to the International Space Station, an… Read More

What Americans want from space: More about Earth, less about moon and Mars

A newly released survey from Pew Research Center suggests that Americans still strongly support the space program, 60 years after… Read More

Blue Origin gets in on NASA studies for resource utilization on moon and Mars

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is among 10 teams that will share about $10 million in NASA… Read More

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Jeff Bezos: ‘We will have to leave this planet … and it’s going to make this planet better’

LOS ANGELES – Deep thinkers have been saying for generations that we have to get off this rock and head for the… Read More

Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin space venture go all in on moon settlements

LOS ANGELES — Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says his Blue Origin space venture will work with NASA as well as the… Read More

Astronaut Alan Bean, Apollo 12’s artistic moonwalker, dies at 86 after sudden illness

Artist-astronaut Alan Bean, the moonwalker who saw himself as different from the rest, died today at the age of 86… Read More

‘The Expanse’ is saved: Jeff Bezos says Amazon will pick up sci-fi TV saga, and the crowd goes wild

LOS ANGELES — I wanted to start out talking with Jeff Bezos tonight about his vision for settling outer space, but… Read More

Five ‘Martian’ miscues to fix in space flicks

LOS ANGELES — Planetary scientist Pascal Lee could give astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson a good run for his money when… Read More

President Trump signs off on directive to deregulate commercial space ventures

President Donald Trump has signed his administration’s second space policy directive, focusing on streamlining licensing procedures and turning the Commerce… Read More

Queqiao takes flight: China launches Chang’e-4 relay satellite to moon’s far side

News Brief: China today launched a satellite that will serve as the communications relay for a future probe on the… Read More

Arch Mission teams up with Astrobotic to send Wikipedia and more to the moon

The Arch Mission Foundation is partnering with Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic to have a miniaturized library sent to the moon’s surface aboard… Read More

NASA’s Kilopower project demonstrates a nuclear reactor that’s made for space

That’s one small step for nuclear reactors on the moon and Mars, and several giant leaps to go. Eventually, the… Read More