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  • Chang’e-4 ready for attempted farside landing
    From Inside Outer Space: The state-run China Daily reports January 1st that the country’s Chang’e 4 robotic probe is expected to land on the South Pole–Aitken basin on the Moon’s farside sometime between Wednesday and Thursday, citing
  • Photo of Harrison Schmitt
    From CU °Ēøē³Ō¹Ļ Today: Apollo astronaut visits campus, shares tales from the moon This week, Harrison ā€œJackā€ Schmitt, an Apollo-era astronaut and the last person to set foot on the moon, gave a group of CU °Ēøē³Ō¹Ļ students the chance to see
  • Nature Illustration for How to Build a Moonbase
     From Nature: Next year, astronaut Matthias Maurer expects to walk on the surface of the Moon — but without the hassles of a rocket flight, zero-gravity nausea and a risky landing. Instead he’ll stroll close to home in a leafy meadow near
  • Lockheed Martin's concept of a reusable, crewed lunar lander would take astronauts from a moon-orbiting space station down to the lunar surface
    From NBC News: Before humans venture to Mars, NASA wants to send astronauts back to the moon — and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has developed a new lunar lander concept designed to shuttle space flyers between a moon-orbiting space station and
  • Artist illustration of Lockheed Martin's lunar lander
    From Space News: Bremen, Germany — As NASA gears up to support work on lunar lander designs, Lockheed Martin released details Oct. 3 about a proposed reusable human lunar lander that leverages technology used on the Orion spacecraft and concepts
  • NASA logo
    From the Washington Examiner: Late last year, President Trump announced a new — and expensive — mission for NASA: Return Americans to the moon, then reach Mars and planets beyond and do it in collaboration with private-sector partnerships. The
  • Dr. Jack Burns Moon background
    From the Daily Camera: University of Colorado researchers are planning to put a satellite in orbit around the moon to observe what they call the universe’s ā€œdark agesā€ — an era just 15 million to 30 million years after the Big Bang, before the first
  • Timeline of the Universe
    From CU °Ēøē³Ō¹Ļ Today: The far side of the moon could give CU °Ēøē³Ō¹Ļ researchers an unprecedented look back at the early ā€œdark agesā€ of the universe before the first stars had begun to flare into existence. NASA recently picked the Dark Ages
  • NASA logo
    From NASA: Section 1 - Forward to the Moon, Mars and Beyond and Section 2 - Americans in Lunar Orbit and on the Lunar Surface are particulary relevant to NESS projects. See the full report and other sections below. Section 1 - Forward to the
  • DAPPER Concept
    From NASA: NASA has selected nine proposals to study using small satellites, or SmallSats, for advanced astronomical space-based observations. The proposed SmallSat studies are a fraction of the size, weight, and cost of a typical space-bound
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