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India reached moon, hosted G20 Summit, we are begging for funds, laments former Pak PM Nawaz Sharif
Addressing a meeting of his party, PML(N), former Pakistan Prime Minister said that India reached t…
ANI
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Why Russia and India both crashed near the moon's south pole before India nailed the first soft landing there
Moon landings are rapid, complex, uncertain events where mission operators have no ability to inter…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Back to the Moon: Space lawyer & planetary scientist tells us what it takes to share the benefits of lunar exploration
NASA is planning to put US astronauts back on the surface of the Moon by the end of 2024. This miss…
PTI
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NASA is pushing its human moon landing back to 2025, and its top official worries China will beat the US there
Now that Blue Origin's lawsuit against NASA is over, the agency can work with SpaceX to build its n…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China just landed its Chang'e-5 spacecraft on the moon. The mission could bring moon rocks to Earth for the first time in 40-plus years.
The samples will come from a previously unexplored volcanic plain. China aims to send them back to …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Susie N…
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China and Russia have agreed to build a lunar space station together, snubbing NASA's plans for joint space exploration
The Chinese and Russian governments have signed an agreement build a lunar space station together t…
Cheryl Teh
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China lands its secretive space plane after 9 months in orbit
The mysterious "experimental" space plane could be a round-trip vehicle for "peaceful" use of outer…
Natalie Musumeci,Morgan McFal…
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There's no GPS on the moon. NASA and ESA have to fix that before humans return in 2 years.
Without satellite navigation, rockets can't navigate to the moon without ground control, which is c…
Marianne Guenot
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China just launched a mission to the moon to collect rock samples — the first time a country will have done so in more than 40 years
The Chang'e-5 mission is the latest step in China's ambitious plan to land on and study the moon. T…
Susie Neilson
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The moon could have up to 297 billion tons of water stored in tiny glass beads on its surface, scientists say
The research points to a potential water source for future astronauts, as space agencies mull lunar…
Matthew Loh
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China and Russia haven't signed on to NASA's new plan to unify how humanity explores space
To join NASA on the moon and Mars, countries must agree to some rules: be peaceful, mine space reso…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Video from China's rock-collecting spacecraft shows the probe stick its landing on the moon
China's space agency announced it had landed its Chang'e 5 probe on the moon. Then it released the …
Susie Neilson,Morgan McFall-J…
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China beats SpaceX and Blue Origin to reach orbit with a methane-fueled rocket, edging ahead of the US in the space race
Landspace launched its Zhuque-2 rocket Tuesday. It's the first "methalox" rocket to reach orbit, be…
Marianne Guenot
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After measuring radiation on the moon for the first time, scientists say a lunar base should be built underground to protect astronauts
Astronauts didn't measure how much radiation they were exposed on the moon. New data show the doses…
Aylin Woodward
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The race to become the next space ‘superpower’ lands China on the ‘dark side’ of the moon
Not only does is position China as a space superpower in the eyes of the the rest of the world, …
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NASA releases photos of a new backpack it designed to help astronauts navigate the moon in the dark
The backpack would help astronauts on the planned moon missions map the terrain in 3D in real-time,…
Marianne Guenot
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The Saudi crown prince wants to build a trillion-dollar utopia in the desert. His deals with China reveal a darker vision.
NEOM, Mohammed bin Salman's trillion-dollar project, will combine luxury and totalitarian surveilla…
Tom Porter
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NASA's $30 billion Artemis missions will attempt to set up a moon base
Narrator: The mission was named in homage to Apollo's twin sister, Artemis, the Greek goddess of th…
David Anderson,Bob Hunt,Dave …
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China plans to reach Mars by 2020 and eventually build a moon base
"Beijing has not approved a plan to send humans to the moon," the report said. "In its 2011 white p…
Rebecca Harrington
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Reports of a secret base deal are raising fears that Beijing is boxing in the South China Sea
"These are two powers that have wanted significant attention and significant influence in mainland …