WASHINGTON — The commercial spaceflight industry is thriving, and regulators won't get in the way. That's the message that speakers at the 23rd Annual Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington this week want to get out.
NASA is certainly leaning into the push for commercial spaceflight. Just last week, the space agency unveiled 16 scientific experiments and technology demonstrations that will hitch a ride to the moon aboard landers built by two private companies: Astrobotic of Pittsburgh and Intuitive Machines LLC of Houston. The two landers are slated to launch in July 2021 on United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket and Space X's Falcon 9, respectively.
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3 supermoons, an extra full moon, a blue moon and a micro-moon all to occur in 2020 - mlive.com
There is a lot going on with the moon this year. Here's a quick rundown of some of the lunar events.
First off, we get an extra full moon this year, but we have to wait until Halloween. Usually each month has a full moon since a full moon occurs every 28 days. With the lunar cycle being shorter than our monthly calendar, there are more full moons than months.
A second full moon in a month is also called a blue moon. The Halloween full moon will be a blue moon. The moon doesn't appear blue. It's just the name it has been given.
'Assembler' robots could build solar arrays and more on the moon | Space
A newly NASA-funded project called The Assemblers envisions a swarm of robots putting together solar arrays on the moon's surface — or doing other joint-assembly projects in space, on the moon or on Mars.
A new video — perhaps you can call it a "robo cam" — shows how the assembly would look from a robot's point of view as it examines a structure and targets certain areas for more work. Several time-lapse video clips show robots moving into different positions. For now, they are doing this under the watchful eye of engineers, but over time they will work more autonomously.
Proposed House Bill Would Delay NASA's Return to the Moon - Scientific American
The bill — designated HR 5666 and introduced by Rep. Kendra Horn, D-Okla., chair of the committee's space subcommittee — stresses that a moon landing in 2028 should be put in the context of a larger moon-to-Mars program. This Red Planet program would put humans in Mars orbit by 2033, followed by surface missions.
HR 5666 further calls for a moon-to-Mars program office that would be established 60 days after the bill passes into law, with a program director who would report both to NASA's associate administrator and the agency's associate administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations mission directorate.
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Moon girls basketball trying to keep pace in rugged Section 1-5A - Trib HSSN
Moon head coach Jody Powell talks with Emma Theodorsson during a game against Chartiers Valley on Jan. 9, 2020, at Moon Area High School.
Moon’s Reilly Sunday drives to the basket between Chartiers Valley’s Megan McConnell and Aislin Malcolm during their game on Jan. 9, 2020, at Moon Area High School.
Moon’s Emma Theodorsson takes a shot as time expires during a game against Chartiers Valley on Jan. 9, 2020, at Moon Area High School.
Ruckus Moon by Holiday Mathis – Boston Herald
Thoughts on a moon causing a ruckus: The opposite of knowing what’s right for you isn’t knowing what’s wrong for you, it’s uncertainty. Wrongness is easy and obvious. You just avoid it. But something that’s a little right and a little wrong in spots — that’s the kind of thing that needs to be sorted out and decided so it doesn’t waste your time indefinitely.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). When you feel like the world is yours, it is. The reason you don’t feel this way all of the time is that you have a conscience that disallows you from missing out on the most important thing a human can do, which is to grow.
These twin rovers might explore the moon together one day | Space
As humans work toward returning to the moon with initiatives such as NASA 's Artemis program , which aims to land the first woman and the next man on the moon by 2024, researchers are developing the robots that will explore with these astronauts. And these robots will have to collaborate, too.
In a move intended to support the future of robotic exploration, the European Space Agency 's (ESA) Technology Development Element (TDE) program has entered a contract with French technology company Comex to develop a two-year project called Trailer, which will test how well two robots could work together on a future lunar mission.
Scientists Search for Deltas on Saturn's Largest Moon - Eos
Fifteen years ago this month, a small spacecraft gently touched down on a strange, new world. The European Space Agency's Huygens lander had hitched a ride to Saturn's largest moon, Titan, on the back of NASA's Cassini mission, which orbited Saturn for more than a decade.
Huygens gave earthlings an unprecedented view of a world much like—and unlike—our own. Titan is the only other place in the solar system with liquid raining from clouds and pooling on its surface in lakes and rivers, but that liquid is composed primarily of methane and ethane, not water. Titan's weather patterns refuse to match our models, and its atmosphere remains mysteriously replenished by large, complex, organic molecules.
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