July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... clear about who they believe will own the samples, stating “the lunar samples brought back to Earth will be the only privately...landed on the far side of the Moon. Chang’e 5 will return samples from the Moon and by the time Chang’e 8 launches in 2027...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... prebiotic compounds. JAXA’s current Hayabusa2 mission at Ryugu and NASA’s OSIRIS-REx at Bennu will return precious samples of these two enormous carbonaceous chondrites, allowing us to study how these important materials formed in space, and how...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
...Gerard O’Neill first proposed in the 1970s. Apollo’s rock samples proved the Moon could contain everything that would be needed ...Having been to the lunar surface and returned with rock samples revealing its mineral potential, it was Armstrong’s view ...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
... feasible and cost-effective to deliver rare-earth metal samples direct from the lunar surface to Earth. This means... has a market value of about $30,000/kg, the value of delivered samples would be only $11.34 million, which is only 2.8 percent of the...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
... of the Perseverance and Zhurong rovers as a part of the Mars20 and Tianwen-1 missions respectively, will take samples of Martian regolith and explore surface geology. Perseverance will look for signs of extant or present life; is it conceivable...
May 2024
DNA across the universe - the new Noah’s Ark?
... deep space, as far as it can go”. Each sample had its own sealed capsule intended to provide protection from...a programme to explore technologies for interstellar migration”. Each sample had its own sealed capsule intended to provide protection from...
