If there were ever a "maverick" among the naked eye planets, that title would certainly go to Mars .
Just nine months ago, Mars came to within 38.8 million miles (62.43 million kilometers) of Earth, the closest it had been to us since August 2003, and it will not be that close again until September 2035.
Northrop to build homes on moon orbit under $935 mln NASA contract | Reuters
NASA and its commercial and international partners are building Gateway to support science investigations and enable surface landings at the moon, the agency said in a statement.
Northrop Grumman will be responsible for attaching and testing the integrated quarters with a solar propulsion module being developed.
China's Chang'e 6 mission will collect lunar samples from the far side of the moon by 2024 | Space
China is preparing a follow-up to its audacious Chang'e 5 lunar sample return mission by sending a similar spacecraft to collect material from the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin on the far side of the moon.
China launched Chang'e 5 in November last year and 23 days later recovered a return capsule containing samples of what could be the youngest lunar rocks so far collected.
China's Chang'e 5 moon landing site finally has a name | Space
The landing site for China's complex Chang'e 5 moon sample and return mission now has a name: Statio Tianchuan.
Statio means a post or station in Latin and is also used in the formal name for NASA's Apollo 11 landing site, Statio Tranquillitatis; and Statio Tianhe , China's Chang'e 4 landing site on the far side of the moon.
Brad Cox's Privet Moon sets Ellis Park record for seven furlongs
HENDERSON, Ky. — Trainer Brad Cox last year won his third Ellis Park trainer's title in a tie with Kenny McPeek at 10 wins apiece.
Win No. 6 came in Friday's fifth race, the $53,000 second-level allowance feature for 3-year-olds, where Juddmonte Farms' Privet Moon nipped Flags Up by a head. In the process, Privet Moon set the track record, bulling seven-eighths of a mile in 1:20.69 under Florent Geroux.
Hitting the Books: How NASA selected the first Lunar Rover to scoot across the moon | Engadget
All through 1962 and into 1963, both GM and Bendix kept an eye on the Surveyor program. Sure enough, come summer, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid out its requirements for a hundred-pound, remote-controlled rover that it wanted to stash aboard the landers.
The short deadline weeded out the dilettantes. In October the two companies left standing—GM and Bendix—started work under contract. GM was ready with its six-wheeled design.
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Venus and the moon pass a fading Mars in the evening sky this weekend https://t.co/c7MaNxWs9V https://t.co/ofr2IWNQUf SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Fri Jul 09 20:18:36 +0000 2021
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