July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... NASA astronauts for Gemini mission training in 1962. Lunar sample number 10003, one of many collected by Armstrong ... only clear 70 mm Hasselblad photograph of Armstrong captured on the lunar surface. The ‘gift’ of Armstrong Norman Mailer’s book, Of...
11 March 2019
LAMP shows migrating water molecules on the Moon
...the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) instrument, on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a team of scientists have observed ...previously conducted extensive experiments with water and lunar samples collected by the Apollo missions. The research...
10 December 2018
First far side of the Moon mission underway
...Chang'e 4 have been adapted from Chinas earlier Chang'e 3 lunar probe, which took up residence on the Moon in December 2013... lunar base. The nation has two more missions lined up, Chang’e 5 and Chang’e 6, that will focus on collecting lunar samples ...
28 April 2021
First piece of China's space station expected to launch this week
... The backup to China’s Chang'e-5 mission, which successfully brought back 1,731 grams of moon samples in 2020, Chang'e-6 would also collect lunar samples automatically for comprehensive analysis and research. It will target the South Pole-Aitken (SPA...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
...the television images of Neil Armstrong stepping onto the lunar surface, before the rest of the Apollo 11 ...stations The section on the Apollo missions includes the largest lunar sample on public display in Australia. The original antenna from...
26 February 2018
A Sky Wonderful with Stars – 50 years of modern astronomy on Maunakea
... in mentioning the training of Apollo astronauts in the islands’ moonlike landscapes and, more recently, the testing of lunar sampling robots; a photo shows a strange, unidentified rover with internally sprung wheels and a body like a dodgem. But...
