moon

'Lunar Icecube' spacecraft could help NASA build a mine on the moon

Posted in Hardware on 4th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

By turning water into rocket fuel, colonizing the moon could practically pay for itself.

Moon village would host first class research

Posted in Science on 23rd Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

Europes new space chief Johann-Dietrich Werner explains his lunar ambitions in an interview with Nature.

A new NASA-funded study lays out a plan to return humans to the Moon

Posted in Science on 22nd Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

Footprints by 2021 and a permanent base by the 2030s.

Should the European Space Agency build a colony on the far side of the Moon?

Posted in Science on 14th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

The new head of the European Space Agency has a plan, for humanity to build a 'village on the Moon'.

Is NASA planning to 'terraform' part of the moon? Not quite

Posted in Science on 9th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

Our moon has a lot of frozen water ice, and NASA scientists are trying to figure out how to mine it for use on spacecraft missions.