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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...

https://www.russianspaceweb.com/dals.html I am curious if any hardware for the DALS, the planned N1/L3 missions scientific equipment was produced or tested. I am also unaware of any scientific equipment that was specific to the fourth unlaunched Lunokhod (Lunokhod 3).

https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/08/15/0145200/researchers-figure-out-how-to-keep-clocks-on-the-earth-moon-in-sync https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/13/nist_lunar_orbit_clocks/

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...

News just came over the transom to me. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/bill-anders-apollo-8-astronaut-took-earthrise-photo-dies-plane-crash-w-rcna156149

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...

New video from NASA to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the mission. View: https://youtu.be/XhvliTtzQXY

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/z8frvx/what_happened_to_hiltons_hotel_on_the_moon/ https://mascola.com/insights/lunar-hilton-luxury-hotel-advertising/ http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/hotels_in_space.shtml...

NASA's Lunar Outpost Heavy Lift Vehicle: The Comet Rocket <iframe width="560" height="315" src=" View: https://www.youtube.com/embed/uSZtnRJzSBA " title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture"...

As said in the tin. Now Buzz Aldrin is all alone as the last Apollo 11 crew still standing. The way things go, no Apollo crew veteran will be left by 2024 to see a tentative return to the Moon...

I wonder how much this will be driven by each country. Will one be more more in the driving seat than the other. https://spacenews.com/china-russia-enter-mou-on-international-lunar-research-station/

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw8kRZEvh_s

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Hi I really love this web site it has so much fantastic info on the hidden or forgotten space projects. Sadly, I don’t visit this website enough due to my projects. In 1989 I had my old boardgame Liftoff! Race to the Moon published; a simulation for four players with alternate proposed ways of...

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ASTROBOTIC AWARDED $199.5 MILLION CONTRACT TO DELIVER NASA MOON ROVER JUNE 11, 2020 Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander to carry the NASA VIPER mission to the south pole of the Moon in 2023, as a precursor to a human landing Pittsburgh, PA – Astrobotic, the world’s leading lunar logistics service...

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Apple has released the first three episodes of For All Mankind, an alternate history TV series. Ron Moore, of Battlestar Galactica, is running it. The premise is that the Soviets were lucky with the N-1 and the first man on the moon was Alexei Leonov. As a result, the space race continues...

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...