lunar

I think NASA research into this goes back a good while now, and certainly across a few presidential administrations. Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/nasa-china-space-station-duffy-directives-00492172 View...

"Restored USAF documentary from 1962 about future space exploration as imagined in the early 1960s. Cargo transport to space stations and lunar bases is shown using animation. Rockets (Saturn inspired), spaceplanes and cargo vehicles (Agena inspired) are depicted. "

Hey Y'all; just saw this, NASA wants fresh ideas for recycling garbage on the moon News By Samantha Mathewson published 18 July 2024 With crewed Artemis launches on the horizon, NASA is searching for sustainable solutions for waste management during long-term missions on the moon...

This for Alternate history Story i work on. and i need advice and help on some details. NEXT is Lunar Colonisation Program It reuse the entire Launch rocket and Lunar lander And orbital refuel for second stage for Lunar Trajectory Injection To bring 60 metric tons lander to Lunar surface...

As the US looks to go back to the Moon with Artemis my question here is, what might have been feasible in the 1970s to keep the US sending manned expeditions to the Moon? Clearly, the main obstacle was a political one. With no Soviet manned lunar programme once the US had got to the Moon first...

Artemis is the overall NASA program aimed at re-establishing manned lunar exploration which includes the "lunar gateway". A human rated, reusable lander is being developed using the model of the commercial crew program. The schedule goal is to conduct the first, un-crewed landing in 2024...

Boeing were involved in the original LRV, alongside General Motors: ORIGINAL CAPTION: The Apollo 15 Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) and the Lunar Module (LM) during simulations at the Kennedy Space Center. [Photo: NASA]

To start off with: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-363-foot-projection-of-a-rocket-will-be-flashed-14088032.php Here's a few threads, old and otherwise, on subjects related to Apollo 11: https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/astrorocket-saturn-derived-apollo-documents-sale.2991/...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/lockheed-martin-unveils-a-super-sized-lunar-lander-for-four-humans/

I write correctly - a tank? In old Soviet magazines of the late Stalin period and early Khrushchev I saw an interesting project of a lunar scientific tank. But - in Russian. Literary Russian language you will not understand. But tonight I downloaded a very interesting book. This is an Indian...

Proposed inflatable lunar habitat designed to allow a two-week stay on the lunar surface. It would have been carried on the LM in place of the LRV unless the mission was a Dual LM mission. The attached pictures depict the deployment sequence. Lunar Stay Time Extension Module (STEM)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMXWsiaEK6Q https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/07/19/0157238/taiwan-building-lunar-lander-for-nasa-moon-mining-mission The 'Proving Ground' project is intended to develop and launch the Prospector, which in turn is primarily intended as a technology testbed...

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/russia-is-planning-to-build-a-permanent-manned-base-on-the-moon-095818907.html Anyone have anything more on this new program?

http://www.myspacemuseum.com/sovspac1.htm ;) http://www.astronautix.com/craft/lk.htm

One of the more interesting ways to provide power for an extended lunar stay: The Hypergolic Reciprocating Engine Electrical Power System and its application to the Lunar Excursion Module. http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700026425.pdf

http://rt.com/news/nasa-grow-plants-moon-420/

"Confirmed: US planned to nuke the moon" Published: 26 November, 2012, 21:13 Source: https://rt.com/usa/news/us-moon-nuclear-project-631/

Boeing Lunar Rover circa 1991 Source: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1991-Boeing-Lunar-Rover-Press-Photo-/190704380245?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item2c66dde955

Northrop "Walking" Lunar Vehicle from 1965 concept photo found on eBay. Source: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Press-Photo-1965-Moon-Lunar-Concept-Vehicle-By-Northrop-Space-Lab-Apollo-Moon-La-/160790921570?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item256fe2c162

From the June 1959 edition of Popular Science, an article on the Martin Company's USAF Lunar Simulator project, basically intended to simulate conditions inside a long-term manned installation on the Moon. Among it's interesting features was the plan to eventually have it house it's own...