Lunar
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The Google Lunar Xprize, a decade-long competition to put a privately funded spacecraft on the moon, may have come to an anticlimactic end but organizers aren't conceding defeat just yet. They have today announced plans to re-launch the competition.
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Who owns the Moon? Well, technically no one, but interesting times lie ahead in terms of potential commercial and private property claims to the lunar surface after revelations President Trump and his administration is investigating, "the large-scale economic development of space."
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The European Space Agency's artist-in-residence Jorge Mañes Rubio has released the conceptual design for a vast lunar temple. The 50 m (164 ft) tall dome-shaped temple would be a place of contemplation for future moon-dwellers.
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The Google Lunar XPrize has been almost a decade in the making, but 2017 will be the year that we finally have lift off. The XPrize foundation has today confirmed the five finalist teams that have secured launch contracts and will make the final push for the Moon's surface.
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When some Apollo missions returned from the moon, they brought back samples of the lunar soil. New research into some of those samples has revealed that those missions also brought back something else – the remnants of a star that died near our solar system about two million years ago.
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A new study out of MIT says that, although possibly a little out of the way, the Moon would make a worthwhile refueling pit stop for manned missions to Mars by reducing the mass of a launch from Earth by 68 percent.
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New MIT research focusing on the gravitational signature of craters on the far side of the Moon is shedding light on the nature and origin of the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB), as well as the earliest life-supporting processes that took place in our solar system.
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The seventh annual Bonhams space auction is set to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first American spacewalk on April 21. Rare memorabilia and items flown on Apollo, Mercury, Gemini, and Soyuz along with components and souvenirs from a range of unmanned missions will be on sale.
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We tend to think of future lunar colonies as being cramped futuristic domes or subsurface rabbit warrens, but what about underground caverns big enough to hang glide in? According to a study by a Purdue University, the Moon may contain lava tubes large enough to house entire cities.
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A bag full of Apollo 11 relics that traveled into space aboard the Eagle Lunar Module (LM) has been discovered decades after the mission touched down, hidden in Neil Armstrong's closet.
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Two years after Liftport raised over US$100,000 on Kickstarter, the team is sharing its progress towards creating an elevator from Earth to space, a journey that - interestingly enough - begins on the moon.
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The European Space Agency (ESA) and architecture firm Foster + Partners have released a video outlining how they envision a future mission to construct a moonbase with the aid of 3D printing technology may unfold.
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