From SpaceNews: Commentary by Jack Burns - At the recent National Space Council meeting, U.S. Vice President Pence challenged the nation to begin exploring space again with a human mission to the moon’s south pole by 2024. Public-private-academic partnerships will help us accelerate a new lunar program. Such successful collaborations...
From The New Yorker: In January, the China National Space Administration landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon, the side we can’t see from Earth. Chang’e-4 was named for a goddess in Chinese mythology, who lives on the moon for reasons connected to her husband’s problematic immortality...
From CU Boulder Today and Brainwaves: Before humans venture farther into space, we have big questions to answer. When and where will we go? How will our bodies handle those harsh environments? How will we interact with life we find there? Experts weigh in on those questions in this episode...
From The Coalition for Deep Space Exploration: Please join the Coalition for Deep Space Exploration for "Ask Me Anything" event with experts on the future of Human Space Exploration. Read more...
From the Daily Camera: Vice President Mike Pence, chair of the National Space Council, on Tuesday called for a landing of American astronauts at the south pole of the moon by 2024. The pledge by Pence, which he said carried the backing of President Donald Trump, came at the fifth...
From NASA: Vice President Mike Pence asked NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine to accelerate the agency’s lunar exploration plans during a National Space Council meeting held at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, March 26. In addition to targeting a human landing on the Moon in 2024, the council...
From WIRED: In December 2017, roughly a year into his tenure as president, Donald Trump directed NASA to develop a plan to return American astronauts to the moon. Since then, the government has released few details about what this mission would look like. But Tuesday, at the fifth meeting of...
From Ars Technica: One of the panelists who will appear at a National Space Council meeting next Tuesday said to expect "a few fireworks" during the discussion, which will focus on NASA's efforts to return humans to the Moon. The meeting of this council that oversees US spaceflight policy will...
From Space News: The National Space Council will hold its next public meeting March 26 to discuss NASA’s human space exploration plans. The council is slated to meet on the afternoon of March 26 at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The meeting will be the fifth...
From SYFY Wire: The moon may look like a vast extraterrestrial desert, but on the molecular level, it has the potential to quench an astronaut’s thirst. NASA scientists have discovered how future moonwalkers can use lunar chemistry to their advantage when it comes to getting a water refill. A study...
