Tag: Artemis
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Why the Moon Is Not the South China Sea: Reframing Lunar Space Ahead of the Next Race
Rethinking the Narrative: The Moon vs. the South China Sea The push toward crewed lunar missions has often been framed as a reprise of the geopolitical race that once swirled around the South China Sea. But equating the Moon with regional sovereignty disputes risks misreading both the goal and the future of space exploration. Rather…
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What’s Odd About the Moon’s Largest Crater—and Why Artemis Astronauts Are Headed There
Introduction: A Giant Crater That Holds Inside Secrets The Moon’s far side hosts the Solar System’s largest known impact basin: the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin. Spanning roughly 1,930 kilometers north-south and about 1,600 kilometers east-west, this ancient scar on the Moon’s crust formed around 4.3 billion years ago when a colossal asteroid struck the young…
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What the Moon’s Largest Crater Reveals About Its Hidden Past—and Artemis’ Next Destination
Unraveling a Moonwired Mystery: A Basin That Changes Our View The Moon is not a perfectly uniform little world orbiting Earth. Its far side hosts the largest known impact basin in the Solar System—the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin. Spanning roughly 1,930 kilometers from north to south and about 1,600 kilometers east to west, the SPA…
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Moon’s Largest Crater Reveals Hidden Clues as Artemis Eyes South Pole-Aitken
Understanding the Moon’s Hidden History The Moon wobbles through space in a quiet duet with Earth: it spins on its axis in roughly the same time it takes to orbit our planet, a phenomenon known as synchronous rotation. This lock means we always see the same face, while the far side remains largely mysterious to…
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NASA’s Glass Bubble Moon Habitats: Turning Lunar Dust into Self-Healing Homes
From Lunar Dust to Living Quarters: A Bold NASA Vision NASA is advancing a bold concept for life support on the Moon, aiming to transform locally sourced lunar soil into habitable structures. The plan centers on melting lunar glass found in regolith and blowing it into large, bubble-shaped domes that could serve as self-contained living…
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Lunar Glass Bubbles: NASA’s Self-Healing Moon Homes from Dust
NASA’s Bold Plan: Glass Bubbles for Moon Habitats NASA is exploring a futuristic concept to house astronauts on the Moon using a resource that is already present on the lunar surface: lunar glass. The idea, championed by a private contractor called Skyeports, envisions large, transparent glass bubbles formed from melted lunar regolith. These self-contained habitats…
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Starship 11th Flight Advances SpaceX Moon Mission Vehicle
SpaceX Concludes 11th Starship Test Flight SpaceX’s colossal Starship rocket reached another milestone on Monday with its 11th test flight from the company’s Texas launch facilities. The event marked the final test in a phase of demonstrations designed to validate a heavily upgraded vehicle intended for longer-duration missions beyond Earth’s orbit. The Starship, stacked atop…
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SpaceX Completes 11th Starship Test Flight Amid Moon and Mars Goals
SpaceX wraps up its 11th Starship test flight, signaling a pivotal step toward longer, more capable missions Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Monday completed the 11th test flight of its towering Starship rocket from its Texas facilities, marking a steady cadence of tests as the company gears up for more ambitious demonstrations. The launch occurred just…
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SpaceX Completes 11th Starship Test Flight Toward Moon
SpaceX’s 11th Starship Test Flight Concludes in Texas SpaceX has wrapped up the 11th test flight of its colossal Starship vehicle from the company’s launch facilities in south Texas. The test, which occurred Monday evening, featured a Starship upper stage stacked on top of its Super Heavy booster and marked a milestone as the company…
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Off to Indian Ocean Splashdown: Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship Completes 11th Test Flight
Overview: A Milestone in Spaceflight SpaceX has completed its eleventh full-scale test flight of the Starship rocket, a key milestone in the company’s bid to support NASA’s plans for crewed lunar landings by 2030. The mission, which saw Starship travel roughly halfway around the world, featured the spacecraft deploying eight mock Starlink satellites and executing…