One small hop for man? Japan shoots for jumping craft fueled by moon water
While liquid water does not exist on the moon's surface, past research suggests there may be ice in a crater near the lunar south pole.
Japanese startup raises $28 million to help fund moon mission
Ispace plans its first lunar landing mission in 2022, and another the year after to explore the moon’s surface with a rover.
NASA on Friday picked a new space capsule from Elon Musk's SpaceX to ferry cargo and supplies to the agency's planned lunar space station, a crucial building block to its goals to build a permanent post on the moon and mount future missions to ...
India to take another shot at moon landing after crash last year
India will attempt a second moon landing, after a previous try last year failed just minutes before a scheduled touchdown on the lunar surface, in a bid to restore its credentials as an ambitious space power. The South Asian nation's Chandrayaan-3 mission to the moon, ...
Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin partners with Lockheed and others on moon lander
U.S. billionaire Jeff Bezos said on Tuesday his space company Blue Origin has signed agreements with Lockheed Martin Corp., Northrop Grumman Corp. and research and development organization Draper for development of its lunar lander designed to help NASA put humans on the moon by ...
Japan's space policy committee in the Cabinet Office decided Thursday to participate in the U.S. program to land astronauts on the moon by 2024. Tokyo will notify Washington later this year about the decision by the Committee on National Space Policy. Japan will offer technical cooperation ...
A lunar rover that will explore the moon on foot in 2021 was unveiled in London on Thursday. The new concept, with four legs rather than wheels, will send data back to a larger mother ship, which will transmit it back to Earth. U.K. startup Spacebit ...
Australia will invest 150 million Australian dollars ($100 million) in its companies and technology to help U.S. President Donald Trump's bid for a moon landing by 2024 and subsequent U.S. missions to Mars, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said over the weekend. Morrison, visiting NASA headquarters ...
Betting on the future of mobility, Toyota pours billions into variety of deals and partnerships
Everywhere you turn in the transportation industry these days, Toyota Motor Corp. already seems to be there. From batteries and self-driving vehicles to lunar rovers and ride-hailing companies, the world's second-biggest automaker is on an investment spree, pouring more than ¥300 billion into deals and ...
Apollo 11's achievement still dazzles
Apollo 11 was a final flaring of American postwar confidence and pride.
Guaranteeing the freedom to navigate the stars has become no less essential to global peace than safeguarding the freedom to navigate the seas.
Moon landing's 'Dish' telescope still transmitting from Australia
It is known as "The Dish" and it soars above a nondescript paddock in rural Australia. Without it, hundreds of millions of people would never have seen all of the generation-defining footage of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon 50 years ago. An estimated 600 ...
