Jade Rabbit Separates From Lander
China’s first moon rover, Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, separated from the lander early on Sunday, several hours after the Chang’e-3 probe soft-landed on the lunar surface. Here is video footage of the Jade Rabbit...
Category: The Moon
The Last Moon Landing – Apollo 17
A documentary video of the Apollo 17 mission to Taurus-Littrow. This was the final lunar landing mission in the Apollo Program. The film highlights of the mission and relates the Apollo Program to the...
China’s Jade Rabbit Animation
Here is an animation of the China’s current moon mission. Chang’e 3 is a lunar exploration mission operated by China National Space Administration, incorporating a robotic lander and a rover. Chang’e 3 successfully launched on...
China LAUNCHES ‘Jade Rabbit’ Rover To The Moon
China launched its first rover mission to the moon on Monday. Sending a robotic rover named Jade Rabbit to surveythe lunar landscape, examine its geology and beam images back to Earth. Here is video...
Lunar Space Lift
Last year US firm, Liftport, announced an ambitious project to build a lunar space elevator that could transport both robots and humans using an existing technology, in less than a decade.
The Harvest Moon
The Harvest Moon is the full Moon closest to the northern autumnal equinox and is coming this week. Probably got its name from farmers who needed the moonlight to help them complete the harvest.
Who Owns The Moon And Outer Space Real Estate?
Well, the title says it all! Are claims for outer space real estate legitimate?
LADEE Launches – 6th September 2013
The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) robotic probe launched Friday night atop an Orbital Sciences Corporation Minotaur V rocket. Data from LADEE will help scientists better understand other planetary bodies in our...
Supermoon Of June 23,2013
Brief information on the Supermoon. The term supermoon denotes a full moon that occurs at roughly the same time the moon is nearest Earth in its monthly orbit. An astrologer, not an astronomer, coined the...
Lunar Lander Mission – ESA
A simulation of the Lunar Lander Mission proposed by ESA. The mission was due for liftoff around 2017 but in late 2012 the mission was put on hold. Lunar Lander is a robotic explorer...
The Moon’s Permanently Shadowed Regions – NASA
Thanks to new data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we can now see into the craters on the dark side of the Moon with incredible detail. Due to the axis of the Moon being...
Soviet Manned Lunar Landing – An Orbiter Video by Timm Humphreys
– “For You TO Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here’s a video which shows what may have happened had the Soviet Union not cancelled its ‘Man on The Moon’ mission due to technical...
Last Video Footage From Grail
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends”- Three days prior to its planned impact on a lunar mountain, mission controllers activated the camera aboard one of NASA’s GRAIL twins to take some...
Grail Twins Make Impact With Moon
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Ebb and Flow spacecraft crashed into the Moon last Monday. They were the first spacecraft dedicated to studying the Moons gravitational field. The spacecraft...
Living on the Moon – (3)
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – We continue looking at new technologies and projects required to devel0p a permanent colony on the Moon. Including looking at ambitious plans to export energy...
Living On The Moon – (1)
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Looking at the new technologies that will be required if we are ever to establish a permanent base on the Moon or on other...
Russia Plans Moon Base
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – We have not heard much from The Russian Space Programme for a while. But it appears that plans are under way for a...
Did We Have Two Moons? – Project GRAIL
– ” For You to Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Some researchers believed we once had two moons. Nasa launched project GRAIL in September 2011 to investigate this theory and gather more information...
