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Exploration of the Moon
- Apollo programIn early 1960, NASA manager Abe Silverstein named the new spacecraft program Apollo after the Greek god who rode his chariot across the Sun.
- Chinese Lunar Exploration ProgramIn 2004, the China National Space Administration officially launched the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program. Ouyang Ziyuan, a geologist and chemical…
- Vision for Space ExplorationPresident George W. Bush stood before the nation on the 14th of January 2004 to announce a new direction for space travel.
- NASA lunar outpost conceptsThe United States Air Force unveiled the Lunex Project in 1958. This plan envisioned a twenty-one-person underground base on the lunar surface by 1968.
- Moon landingOn the 4th of October 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 as the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth. This unexpected event was a source of pride…
- Artemis programOn the 11th of December 2017, President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive-1. This executive order officially re-established the national space…
- Commercial Lunar Payload ServicesIn April of 2018, NASA officials made a decision that would reshape lunar exploration. They cancelled the Resource Prospector rover concept study and…
- Exploration of the MoonThe Exploration of the Moon began not with a rocket, but with a rock carving. At Knowth in Ireland, a stone face dated to around 3,000 BCE bears what…
- Colonization of the MoonJohn Wilkins published A Discourse Concerning a New Planet during the first half of the 17th century. This text imagined human life on another world long…
- Lunar Roving VehicleIn 1952, Wernher von Braun published a series of articles in Collier's Weekly magazine titled "Man Will Conquer Space Soon!" These pieces described ten-ton…
- Trans-lunar injectionA spacecraft performs a trans-lunar injection burn to leave its circular parking orbit around Earth. This large propulsive maneuver uses a chemical rocket…