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The $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE is a competition designed to inspire young scientists and engineers to build a robot and safely land it on the lunar surface while on a strict budget. (Photo credit: Google Lunar XPRIZE) A total of $5.25 million in Milestone Prizes was awarded to five teams this week, on […] 
An artist illustration of the Moon Express MX-1 lunar lander on its mission to the Moon.Image Credit: Courtesy of Moon Express Inc. A private commercial space company headquartered in California recently announced it has signed an agreement to use the historic Space Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. […] Morpheus taking flight for Free Flight 14 on May 28, 2014. Although #14 represented the end of the team’s flight test campaign, more data is needed, and so Project Morpheus is readying to take to the skies again, with the first tethered flight test expected to occur this week. Photo Credit: NASA/Mike Chambers At […] Yutu, aka Jade Rabbit, departs China’s Chang’e 3 lander for its first steps on the surface of the Moon. Image Credit: CNSA / CCTV Today, exactly 41 years after the last human footprint was made on the Moon by Gene Cernan, China became the third nation to touch the lunar surface, joining an exclusive […] NASA is testing out ways to cultivate lunar resources by training using similar equipment in Hilo, Hawaii. Image Credit: NASA Astronaut Eugene Cernan, the commander of Apollo 17, was the last man who walked on the Moon in December 1972. NASA is currently conducting a nine-day field test outside Hilo, Hawaii, so they can […] NASA is collaborating with the European and Canadian Space Agencies to develop technologies that could, one day, be used to manufacture oxygen and other vital resources out of the lunar regolith (soil). Photo Credit: NASA CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Those that say NASA has forgotten the Moon – haven’t heard about RESOLVE or more […] The 2012 Lunabotics Competition was held at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex from May 21-26. Photo Credit: Julian Leek CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — This year’s Lunabotics Mining Competition had a simple, yet accurate motto: “Design it, Build it, Dig it!” This event is held annually among college-aged students from points across the globe. Starting […] This false color image of the asteroid Eros illustrates the apparent density of the regulth on the surface. Red is the most dense material, while blue is less so and green pertains to uniform distribution of material. Such information derived from NEAR spacecraft images before it landed on the asteroid can provide compositional clues. […]
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter sensor detects south polar temperature differences during the day (left) and at night where some areas were found to be nearly -400F below zero–colder than measured so far on Pluto. Photo Credit: NASA The first extraterrestrial mining project will be announced today as part of a new commercial space company, […] |
Next Launch PSN 6 / SpaceIL on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 19 Feb 19 at 1:58 GMT 18 Feb 19 at 8:58pm Eastern 
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