BEIJING, March 9 (Xinhua) -- From the Yutu-2 lunar rover roaming on the "dark side" of the moon to the Fendouzhe submersible exploring the 10,000-meter deep ocean, and from salt-tolerant rice growing in tidal flats near the sea to Chinese unmanned equipment guided by the Beidou Navigat...
A VTOL aircraft is one that can both take off and land vertically. As rare as they are valuable, most VTOL are only used for...
China launched an unmanned module(核)on Thursday (containing what will become living quarters for three crew on a permanent space station) that it plans to complete by the end of 2022. The module, named “Tianhe”, or “Harmony of the Heavens”, which will have a life span of at least...
What was the Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle made of? What happened to the Apollo spacecraft? Who were the Project Mercury astronauts? What mission successfully landed on the moon in 1969? What is the Galileo Project? Who built the Apollo command module?
The oldest lunar features are the lunar highlands. This is mainly determined by looking at the number of impact craters that the different areas of... Learn more about this topic: Moon Rocks Composition, Types & Characteristics from Chapter 24/ Lesson 2 ...
We'll be sure to update this space with Intuitive Machines' launch tonight. The mission is carrying the company's second moon lander, Athena, and will land at the south pole of the moon to deliver the PRIME-1 experiment to drill for water ice as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload...
The country will launch(发射) its 22 Mars probe(探测器)this summer. This is China's first time 23Mars. China will also start building the space station Tiangong in 2020. 24 a core module (核心舱) and two space labs(实验室),the station 25 finished within two years. Astronauts (宇航员...
The Moon has a smell. It has no air, but it has a smell. Each pair of Apollo astronauts to land on the Moon tramped lots of Moon dust back into the lunar module—it was deep gray, fine-grained and extremely clingy—and when they unsnapped their helmets, Neil Armstrong...
Publicly, the space agency is holding to a September 2026 date to land its first Artemis crew on the lunar surface. To reach that date, NASA officials have previously told Ars that SpaceX needs to fly a propellant-transfer test during the first quarter of 2025. We don’t expect that to...
This process is seen as a critical step for sustainable lunar exploration. Algae-based food production module: A self-contained module designed to test the cultivation of algae as a potential food source in the lunar environment, developed by Euglena Co. Algae production could ...