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Moon dust is less toxic than urban air pollution, scientists discover

Breathing in moon dust can still give you what one astronaut called "lunar hay fever."

Space

Moon RACER: Intuitive Machines takes lunar rover out for debut drive

Intuitive Machines' lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) is not your grandfather's moon buggy. The company's Moon RACER, or Reusable Autonomous Crewed Exploration Rover, just made its public debut.

Space

Nations realise they need to take risks or lose the race to the Moon

The Nasa-led Artemis-3 mission will place the first human boots on the surface of the Moon since Apollo 17’s Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt left the lunar surface in December 1972.

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Lego rolls out details about Apollo lunar rover model coming in August

Lego is gearing up to deliver a detailed model of the original "rock and rolling ride," the electric buggy driven by NASA's last three Apollo crews to explore the moon.

Space

NASA graduates new astronaut class as it begins recruiting for more

"The Flies" are ready to fly, so NASA is in need of some new flyboys (and gals). As the space agency welcomed its latest astronauts into its corps, NASA announced it is again accepting applications.

Space

U.S. President Joe Biden hosts four NASA astronauts, first crew aiming to fly around the moon in 50 years

NASA's Artemis II crew meets President Biden at White House to discuss historic mission to fly around the moon.

The Hindu

Biden hosts four NASA astronauts, the first crew aiming to fly around the moon in a half-century

The four astronauts assigned to fly around the moon for the first time in 50 years have met with President Joe Biden at the White House

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Rock collected by Apollo 17 astronaut in 1972 reveals moon's age

The moon is about 40 million years older than previously thought - forming more than 4.46 billion years ago, within 110 million years after the solar system’s birth

The Hindu

National Memorial Day Parade 2023 honors Apollo astronauts in US capital (video)

Apollo lunar module pilots Charlie Duke, Harrison Schmitt and Rusty Schweickart joined active NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik in the National Memorial Day Parade in Washington, DC.

Space

50 years ago, NASA’s final Apollo mission left the Moon — are we ready to return?

Politics brought the lunar program to an end. Can the Artemis mission pick up where Apollo 17 left off?

Inverse

50 years since the last Apollo astronauts went to the moon, NASA is finally going back

December 7, 1972 was the launch of the final mission in NASA's Apollo moon program. Fifty years later, NASA finally seems poised to return people to the lunar surface.

WEKU

NASA's Orion spacecraft flies past moon a final time before heading back to Earth

NASA’s Orion will fly past Apollo 12 and 14 landing sites, although too high up to be able to make out the descent stages of those missions, before heading back to Earth

Daily Mirror

NASA capsule flies over Apollo landing sites, heads home

NASA's Orion capsule is on its way home from the moon to wrap up a three-week test flight

The Independent UK

Could space-going billionaires be the vanguard of a cosmic revolution?

For humanity truly to slip the surly bonds of Earth, private funds and intrepid thrill-seekers will be required, says astronomer Martin Rees

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SpaceX launches 4 astronauts for NASA after private flight

A week after the new crew arrives, the three Americans and German they're replacing will return to Earth in their own SpaceX capsule.

Inverse

It's open! Images show moment NASA cracks into 50-year-old Moon rock sample

A tube sample, collected during the 1972 Apollo 17 mission, has finally been opened. The lunar core sample, dubbed 73001, was opened at the Johnson Space Center.

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