Tag: Moon
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts safely splash down in Atlantic after spending 170 days in orbit
The Crew-4 mission launched at 3:52 a.m. EDT on April 27 on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Less than 16 hours later, Dragon docked to the Harmony module's space-facing port.
October 15, 2022 -
Weather may play spoilsport as NASA prepares again for Moon mission launch
The US space agency has met all objectives for the launch, including the key hydrogen leak threat which has resulted in two failure attempts.
September 24, 2022 -
NASA set to return to moon, to launch Artemis I mission
The American space agency is targeting liftoff on August 29 between 8:33 a.m. ET and 10:33 a.m. ET. Artemis I will not carry astronauts, nor land on the moon, however, the mission is critical to demonstrating that NASA's monster rocket and deep space capsule can deliver on their promised abilities.
August 29, 2022 -
NASA satellite breaks from orbit around Earth, heads to moon
NASA teamed up with two commercial companies: California-based Rocket Lab and Colorado-based Advanced Space, which owns and operates the Capstone satellite.
July 4, 2022 -
Plants are growing in moon soil
“We first asked the question of whether plants can grow in the regolith. And second, how might that one day help humans have an extended stay on the Moon.”
May 15, 2022 -
Watch skies as ‘Worm Moon’ reaches peak on Friday
The full Moon of March will reach its peak on Friday, just two days before the arrival of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, Space.com reported.
March 18, 2022 -
Moons may yield clues to what makes planets habitable, says study
"As a result, we conclude that a completely vapour disk is not capable of forming fractionally large moons," Nakajima said. "Planetary masses need to be smaller than those thresholds we identified in order to produce such moons."
February 2, 2022 -
Scientists find evidence of solar-driven change on Moon
A team led by Northern Arizona University (NAU) scientists used data from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) spacecraft to understand how quickly iron nanoparticles form on the moon over time.
August 22, 2021 -
ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 detects presence of water molecules on moon
The orbiter of the mission is working fine and has been sending data to Chandrayaan-1, the first lunar mission, and showed evidence that there was water on the moon
August 12, 2021 -
NASA rover to search for water, other resources on Moon in 2023
"The data received from VIPER has the potential to aid our scientists in determining precise locations and concentrations of ice on the Moon and will help us evaluate the environment and potential resources at the lunar south pole in preparation for Artemis astronauts,"
May 22, 2021 -
Elon Musk to send Dogecoin-funded satellite to Moon
"We're excited to launch DOGE-1 to the Moon!" said Tom Ochinero, vice president of commercial sales at SpaceX.
May 10, 2021 -
Over the moon
The moon rocks have returned to Earth and the country thus becomes the third to earn the distinction, the first in more than 40 years. The country's re-entry module of Chang'e-5, the latest lunar probe, landed in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia last Wednesday.
December 21, 2020 -
Chinese space probe lifts off from Moon surface, ambitious effort to bring back first lunar samples
The Chang'e-5 spacecraft, named after the mythical Chinese Moon goddess, left the Moon at 1510 GMT Thursday, said China's space agency.
December 5, 2020 -
‘Far more water than previously thought’: NASA’s SOFIA finds water on Moon’s sunlit surface for first time
A new study provides further chemical proof that the Moon holds molecular water, even in sunlit areas.
October 27, 2020 -
Lunar eclipse July 2020: What’s different about the moon?
After two successive lunar eclipses and one solar eclipse, the third lunar eclipse is taking place right now!
July 4, 2020 -
Despite cloud cover in Delhi, PM Modi manages to catch glimpse of solar eclipse
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, totally or partly obscuring the Sun for a viewer on Earth.
December 26, 2019 -
Chandrayaan-2: NASA locates Vikram lander’s debris on moon surface
NASA in its statement said, 'Despite the loss, getting that close to the surface was an amazing achievement'.
December 3, 2019