moon mission

What could Chang’e 4 discover on far side of the moon?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 9, 2019
Chang’e 4 will test soil composition, try to grow plants, and listen for traces of Big Bang

By David Aragorn
China Makes Historic 1st Landing on Mysterious Far Side of the Moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 3, 2019
Humanity just planted its flag on the far side of the moon.

By David Aragorn
China’s Mission to the Farside of the Moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 12, 2018
China is going where no one has gone before–the farside of the Moon. At 2:23 am on Dec. 8th (local time in Sichuan province), a Long March 3B rocket blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, propelling a lander and rover toward the lunar farside. Zhou Kun photographed the launch: “I took the picture only

By David Aragorn
Chang’e-4 Lunar probe is on its way to the moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 11, 2018
Last week we talked about the Chinese Chang’e-4 lunar probe that China was set to launch to study the far side of the moon. The probe launched in the early hours of Saturday morning and that lunch went off without a hitch. China sent the probe towards the moon atop a Long March-3B rocket.

By David Aragorn
China is about to visit uncharted territory on the moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 14, 2018
One Chinese mission will bring back the first lunar rock samples in more than four decades

By David Aragorn
The Moon Is Open for Business 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 2, 2018
Commercial companies are proposing lunar missions at a pace the world hasn’t seen since the Apollo program.

By David Aragorn
Trump wants to send U.S. astronauts back to moon, someday Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 13, 2017
At a time when China is working on an ambitious lunar program, President Donald Trump vowed on Monday that the United States will remain the leader in space exploration as he began a process to return Americans to the moon.

By David Aragorn
Vice President Pence Calls for Human Missions to Moon, Mars at National Space Council 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 11, 2017
Vice President Mike Pence called for returning U.S. astronauts to the Moon and eventual missions to Mars during the first meeting of the National Space Council, held on October 5 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, outside Washington.

By David Aragorn
China plans to land probes on far side of moon, Mars by 2020 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 29, 2016
China vowed Tuesday to speed up the development of its space industry as it set out its plans to become the first country to soft land a probe on the far side of the moon, around 2018, and launch its first Mars probe by 2020.

By David Aragorn
A Japanese Startup Will Try to Land on the Moon Next Year 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- December 24, 2016
Google Lunar X-Prize contestant Team HAKUTO has a promising rover that will be launched to the moon in the new year.

By David Aragorn