lunar surface

It’s hard to believe that only 12 men have walked on the moon, all of them Americans, and the last of those all the way back in 1972. Once the space race between the US and USSR ended, the world seemed to just turn away from it all. Major…

Apart from landing the first humans on the moon, NASA’s Apollo missions returned with 382 kg of lunar soil, rock and core samples; around the same time, the Soviet’s Luna robotic missions retrieved around 300 gm. These samples have been…

For years, NASA has been planting the seeds of what it hopes will one day sprout into a full-fledged lunar economy. In the future, private companies could ferry people and cargo to and from the moon, creating a base to conduct science…