After a wrenching decision by NASA, private lunar lander finds a new customer
However, in lieu of a mass simulator, Astrobotic wanted to see if it could find a more useful payload. So as the company's ...
NASA Gave Up a Ride to the Moon. This Startup’s Rover Took It.
After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...
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How The Lunar Rover Batteries Worked—And Nearly Failed—On The Moon
the first Moon rover—officially known as the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV)—wasn’t launched until the fourth manned Moon landing, Apollo 15, in 1971. The end goals for the LRV were simple ...
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‘Lunar Anthropocene’ Could Mean A Dust Cloud Covering The Moon, Say Scientists
A Bible was left on a lunar rover in the Hadley Plains area of the moon by David Scott, commander of the Apollo 15 mission, in 1971.
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Jim Irwin Apollo 15 Salute, taken by David Scott
Like the large- and medium-format ones, these are very rare, and concerned only about 5/6 iconic images from the entire Apollo program. This is particularly true of the Apollo 11 and Apollo 15 ...
Moon missions in 2025: Five missions will help astronauts return to the moon
NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...
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Nifty 1,913-Piece Lego Lunar Rover Set Is Here, Folds Up Like the Real Thing
One of the newest sets from the Technic team is a detailed recreation of the Apollo 17 lunar rover, which allowed ... named the NASA Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle – LRV, the Technic set boasts ...
Two lunar landers are on the way to the Moon after SpaceX’s double moonshot
Blue Ghost's final descent to the Moon is tentatively scheduled for March 2. The target landing site is in Mare Crisium, an ...