National Geographic has announced an ambitious new series that will chronicle NASA's attempt to send the next man and first woman to the moon .
The new show, aptly titled "Return To The Moon" , will follow NASA astronauts, engineers, and scientists as they work on the space agency's Artemis program . Named after the Greek goddess of the moon and twin sister to Apollo, the name of the first NASA mission to the moon over 50 years ago, the Artemis program aims to send astronauts back on the moon by 2024 with the ultimate goal of establishing a permanent lunar base and then aiming for trips to Mars.
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Beneath a Full Moon, a Healing Ritual - The New York Times
Can you describe what is going on in the work? The weaving is a scene of an imagined ritual between three people in a barren landscape, under a full moon.
China releases image of its flag on the moon as spacecraft carrying lunar rocks
Right before the ascent vehicle lifted off, the lander unfurled what the space administration called the first free-standing Chinese flag on the moon. The agency posted an image — apparently taken from the lander — of the ascend vehicle firing its engines as it took off.
The spacecraft "unfolded the five-star red national flag, a genuine one made from fabrics, marking a first in the country's aerospace history," state media said .
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This is what NASA wants to do when it gets to the moon | MIT Technology Review
When NASA finally gets back to the moon—probably not till sometime after 2024—it will start the groundwork for the first extraterrestrial colony in the history of human civilization, and for future missions to Mars. But America's return for the first time since the Apollo program will also inaugurate a new era of deep-space science. A NASA report released on December 7 outlines what questions NASA still has about the moon, and how getting astronauts on the surface might help answer them.
What Can We Learn From Going Back To The Moon : Short Wave : NPR
It's been more than 40 years since rocks from the moon have come back to Earth. But in late November, a Chinese craft landed on the moon's surface--it's the country's first mission designed to retrieve samples of the moon's surface. The mission is called Chang'e-5, in honor of the moon goddess.
This episode was edited by Gisele Grayson, fact-checked by Ariela Zebede, and produced by Thomas Lu. The audio engineer for this episode was Josh Newell.
Kid Cudi Comes Into Focus on 'Man On The Moon III: The Chosen': Review - Variety
Despite his role as one of the most zealously forensic birthers of emo-rap and its tales of troubled mental health, there has always some disconnect between what Kid Cudi was saying and how he was saying it… or trying to say it all at once. That murky, melancholic jumble finally comes into greater bittersweet focus on “Man On The Moon III: The Chosen.”
As far back as his debut mixtape, 2008’s “A Kid Named Cudi,” through fiery, feeling-filled records such as “Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin’” and even his Kids See Ghosts project with Kanye West two years ago, Cudi’s outlook was that of a solitary man, cursed by awareness’ intensity. Yet his rattled-mind narratives and multi-voice conversations could be as unfocused as his blurred-line musicality.
Can Israelis Put Two Landers on the Moon at Once? - The New York Times
An Israeli nonprofit will try again to land a robotic spacecraft on the moon after its first attempt ended in a crash last year .
The spacecraft, named Beresheet, made it to lunar orbit in April 2019, but plummeted to the surface during its final descent.
On Wednesday, SpaceIL, the nonprofit , announced Beresheet 2, a follow-up that is to be more complex — two landers as well as an orbiter — although the organization says it will fit into roughly the same budget as the first mission: about $100 million. Beresheet 2 is to launch in the first half of 2024.
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