The first U.S. moon landing attempt appeared to be doomed after a private company’s spacecraft developed a “critical” fuel leak.
Only the U.S. has sent astronauts to the moon with Apollo 17’s Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt closing out the program in December 1972. That was it for U.S. moon landings until Astrobotic’s short-lived try last month. Intuitive Machines nicknamed its lander after Homer’s hero in ...
What We Learned From the Moon Landings Did the US Go to the Moon to Beat the Soviets? Leonard David, author ofMoon Rush: The New Space Race, sees the Apollo astronauts’ scientific work as unfinished, but critical to understanding not only the moon’s origins, but also that of our own...
Recent moon landing failures include the IsraeliBeresheet, the IndianChandrayaan-2, the Japanese iSpaceHakuto-Rand the AstroboticPeregrine. However, the Artemis Alliance has had its share of successful moon landings, albeit some of them qualified. India successfully landed theChandrayaan-3on th...
The two landers rocketed away in the middle of the night from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the latest in a stream of private spacecraft aiming for the moon.
Moon’s gravity to slingshot back toward Earth, culminating in a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Throughout the mission, key life support systems and operational capabilities of the Orion spacecraft will be tested under real conditions, ensuring the safety and success of future lunar landin...
But whether this would yield sufficient funding to meet the goals of NASA’s Artemis program — namely, landing astronauts back on the moon as early as 2024 — is another question. The China-Russia lunar research base, Smith says, does not envision human lunar landings until 2036 or later,...
In addition to the United States, the only other countries to ever put landers on the Moon are the Soviet Union (which beat America to the punch by landing Luna 9 in 1966), China,Indiaand Japan. The latter two both made moon landings within the last year. Each of those...
This mission will not be the only one to return to the moon. The CNSA has ambitious plans to eventually build a researchbaseon the moon, and NASA is planning a return to human lunar landings by 2024 with its Artemismission. There are current and future lunar missions being conducted by ma...
NDL, or the Navigation Doppler Lidar for Precise Velocity and Range Sensing:The NDL is an experimental technology aiming to test out how future landers can make more precise landings on the moon. It’s designed to shoot laser beams to the ground to give exact measurements of speed and direct...