As NASA continues plans for multiple commercial deliveries to the Moon’s surface per year, the agency has selected three new scientific investigation payload suites to advance understanding of Earth’s nearest neighbor. Two of the payload suites will land on the far side of the Moon, a first for NASA. All three investigations will receive rides to the lunar surface as…
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Total Eclipse of the Supermoon on May 26 (video)
The full moon will sweep through the dark umbral shadow of the Earth on May 26, 2021, this will cause a total eclipse of the moon. The full moon is closest of 2021, it will be the closest and the brightest full moon of the year… it is called a supermoon. For those living in western North America, the eclipse will…
Read MoreFrom Flags and Lunar Modules to Rovers and Family Pictures
For All Moonkind, Inc., the only organization in the world dedicated to protecting human heritage in space, is proud to unveil the For All Moonkind Moon Registry, a free online resource that catalogs and celebrates human historical sites and artifacts on the Moon. From Luna to Apollo to Chang’e and everything in between, the Moon Registry www.moonregistry.forallmoonkind.org provides overviews of every mission…
Read MoreNASA Selects Intuitive Machines to Land Water-Measuring Payload on the Moon
NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines of Houston approximately $47 million to deliver a drill combined with a mass spectrometer to the Moon by December 2022 under the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative. The delivery of the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment known as PRIME-1 will help NASA search for ice at the Moon’s South Pole and, for the first…
Read MoreNASA Announces Partners to Advance ‘Tipping Point’ Technologies for the Moon, Mars
NASA has selected 14 American companies, including several small businesses, as partners to develop a range of technologies that will help forge a path to sustainable Artemis operations on the Moon by the end of the decade. U.S. industry submitted the proposals to NASA’s fifth competitive Tipping Point solicitation, and the selections have an expected combined award value of more…
Read MoreNASA Asks: What Would You Pack for the Moon?
While advancing its Artemis program – which includes sending the first woman and next man to the lunar surface in 2024 – NASA wants to know what you would pack for a trip to the Moon. The agency kicked off a new social media campaign this week asking participants to share what would be in their lunar suitcases online using…
Read More2019 Full Supermoon Total Eclipse
The first full moon and the first lunar eclipse of 2019 will occur on Sunday night-Monday morning, January 20-21, 2019.
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