NASA announces plan to build base on moon
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See the delicate crescent moon dance with the 'Seven Sisters' of the Pleiades tonight
The Pleiades is a 1,000-strong open star cluster in the constellation Taurus.
NASA plans to invest $20 billion over the next seven years to develop a base on the surface of the moon, the latest major strategy shakeup aimed at enabling humans to live on the lunar surface long-term.
A crater as wide as two American football fields formed in spring 2024, a size expected roughly once a century. A NASA orbiter got to watch.
The king of the planets meets a waxing half moon at sunset tomorrow.
The $20 billion project will span seven years and aims to establish American space superiority, though opponents question spending billions while 10 million Americans could lose health insurance.
It goes without saying that we shouldn’t take everything Elon Musk says too seriously. There are whole websites dedicated to those times when he has ‘talked the talk’ but failed to ‘walk the walk’ — as well as those times when he has been factually untrue.
A recent search for water ice has turned up empty, casting doubt on the abundance of the valuable resource on the lunar surface.
A new study using data from China's Chang'e-4 moon lander found an area of reduced radiation from cosmic rays near the moon. The findings could be used to improve the safety of lunar explorations.