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Space tourists eye $150mln Soyuz lunar flybyMoscow (Sputnik) Aug 23, 2016 Russia's S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia is preparing a Moon expedition on board an upgraded Soyuz spacecraft with eight space tourists interested in a trip, Energia's General Director Vladimir Solntsev said Friday. Energia has been cooperating with the US-based Space Adventures space tourism company to find potential tourists wishing to fly around the Moon. "We have a preliminary design for upgrading the Soyuz spacecraft, which was conceived with the possibility of o ... read more |
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 Chinese Space Lab Tiangong-2 Ready to Dock With Manned Spacecraft Tiangong-2 space lab enters preset orbit for docking with manned spacecraft Moon and Mars on a plane NASA's Asteroid-Bound Spacecraft Aces Instrument Check Scientists and Engineers Evaluate Orion Radiation Protection Plan Astronomers discover dizzying spin of the Milky Way Halo | .. |
 US company gets historic nod to send lander to moon US startup company Moon Express said Wednesday it had received approval from the government to send an unmanned lander to the moon next year, in a first for private industry. ... more | .. |
 China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies in blaze of online glory China's troubled but beloved Jade Rabbit lunar rover has whirred its last, state media said Wednesday, after it bid humanity farewell on social media. ... more | .. |
 Heart hazard for Apollo astronauts: study NASA's Apollo astronauts, the only humans to have travelled beyond Earth's protective magnetosphere, die disproportionately of heart and blood vessel diseases, researchers said Thursday, blaming radiation. ... more | .. |
 Asteroid that formed moon's Imbrium Basin may have been protoplanet-sized Around 3.8 billion years ago, an asteroid more than 150 miles across, roughly equal to the length of New Jersey, slammed into the Moon and created the Imbrium Basin - the right eye of the fabled Man ... more |
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 Russian and US engineers plan manned moon mission Engineers in Russia and the US are completing a plan for a collaborative space program. The initiative would preserve the multinational alliance developed when the International Space Station (ISS) ... more | .. |
 Taiwan to make lunar lander for NASA moon-mining mission Taiwan is building a $47 million lunar lander as part of the first ever moon-mining project, officials said Monday. ... more | .. |
 SSTL and Goonhilly announce partnership and a call for lunar orbit payloads Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd (GES) have announced a new partnership to go beyond Earth's orbit and provide a new model of low cost, high value, space exploration a ... more | .. |
 NASA camera catches moon 'photobombing' Earth For only the second time in a year, a NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth. "For the ... more |
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 Russia to spend $60M in 2016-2018 to fund space voyages to Moon, Mars The project to create a nuclear-power transport module, intended to fly to the moon and Mars, will receive 3.81 billion rubles ($60 million) in funding in 2016-2018, according to the public procurem ... more | .. |
 Russian Moon Base to Hold Up to 12 People Russian engineers are working on a project of a Moon base that will eventually hold up to 12 people, the spokeswoman of a research institute with the Russian space agency Roscosmos told local media. ... more | .. |
 Fifty Years of Moon Dust Before humans could take their first steps on the moon, that mysterious and forbidding surface had to be reconnoitered by robots. When President John Kennedy set a goal of landing astronauts on the ... more | .. |
 US may approve private venture moon mission: report The US government, in a first, is preparing to approve a private commercial space mission beyond the Earth's orbit, the Wall Street Journal has reported. ... more |
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 Airbus Defence and Space to guide lunar lander to the Moon Airbus Defence and Space and the European Space Agency (ESA), have signed a contract for the early development of a system that will ensure the safe and precise landing of the Russian Luna-Resource ... more | .. |
 A new, water-logged history of the Moon After the Apollo missions scooped up rocks from the Moon's surface and brought them home, scientists were convinced for decades that they had proof our nearest celestial neighbour was drier than a bone. ... more | .. |
 Russian Firm Develops Project of Reusable Spacecraft for Lunar Missions Russia's state company Energia has developed a project of reusable manned Ryvok spacecraft for delivery of cargo and cosmonauts to the Moon, the company's representative Yuri Makushenko said Wednesd ... more | .. |
 SwRI scientists discover fresh lunar craters A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists discovered two geologically young craters - one 16 million, the other between 75 and 420 million, years old - in the Moon's darkest regions. ... more |
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 NASA research gives new insights into how the Moon got inked A powerful combination of observations and computer simulations is giving new clues to how the moon got its mysterious "tattoos" - swirling patterns of light and dark found at over a hundred locatio ... more | .. |
 First rocket made ready for launch at Vostochny spaceport A Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket has been installed at Russia's new Vostochny Cosmodrome's launch site ahead of its first space launch, Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said Saturday in a statemen ... more | .. |
 Russia to shift all Lunar launches to Vostochny Cosmodrome Russia will stop using the Soviet-era Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for lunar launches, according to Russian-based Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC Energia). Moscow made the decision to s ... more | .. |
Supernova iron found on the moon A dying star ends its life in a cataclysmic explosion, shooting the majority of the star's material, primarily new chemical elements created during the explosion, out into space. One or more such su ... more |
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 Lunar lava tubes could help pave way for human colony Scientists have found evidence that the Moon's underground could have long tunnels of volcanic origin, which could potentially be repurposed to house human colonies. These channels (also called "lav ... more | .. |
 The Moon thought to play a major role in maintaining Earth's magnetic field The Earth's magnetic field permanently protects us from the charged particles and radiation that originate in the Sun. This shield is produced by the geodynamo, the rapid motion of huge quantities o ... more | .. |
Moon Mission: A Blueprint for the Red Planet A human colony of astronauts could be living on the Moon by 2022, thanks to modern technology making missions cheaper, according to NASA scientists. The Apollo program that lead to the first h ... more | .. |
 Earth's moon wandered off axis billions of years ago A new study published in Nature reports discovery of a rare event - that Earth's moon slowly moved from its original axis roughly 3 billion years ago. Planetary scienti ... more |
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