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1:46pm, 12th May, 2019

Blue Moon and beyond: How Jeff Bezos plans to take civilization to space, starting with lunar colony

Jeff Bezos shows off Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar lander in Washington, D.C., this week. (Blue Origin Photo) It’s our choice: a finite world with limited resources, or an infinite universe with unlimited potential. Those were the options presented b...

6:46pm, 9th May, 2019

Space

Jeff Bezos unveils Blue Moon lunar lander and shares updated vision for Blue Origin in space

Jeff Bezos shows off a mockup of the Blue Moon lunar lander. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos today laid out the architecture for missions to the moon that would support NASA’s goal of landing astronauts...

4:38pm, 9th May, 2019

Space

Jeff Bezos unveils ‘Blue Moon’ lunar lander and shares updated vision for Blue Origin in space

Jeff Bezos shows off “Blue Moon,” a lunar lander built by his space company Blue Origin. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Update, 5 p.m. ET: Bezos showed off the new Blue Origin BE-7 engine, which will hot fire for the first time this summer. He also ca...

Beresheet bummer: Investigation of Israeli lunar lander’s crash points to human factor

2:15pm, 17th April, 2019

Space

Beresheet bummer: Investigation of Israeli lunar lander’s crash points to human factor

Team SpaceIL says this was the last picture taken by the Beresheet lunar lander, at a distance of 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the lunar surface. (SpaceIL Photo) A manually entered command apparently set off a chain reaction of events that led to las...

Israeli Spacecraft Fails to Make First Private Lunar Landing

11:58pm, 11th April, 2019

Tech

Israeli Spacecraft Fails to Make First Private Lunar Landing

Private organization SpaceIL’s Beresheet lander crashes down on the moon following engine and communications problems-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Israeli lunar lander looks back at Earth

10:52pm, 5th March, 2019

Space

Israeli lunar lander looks back at Earth

An image captured by the Beresheet lunar lander shows a plaque with the Israeli flag in the foreground, and Earth in the background. (Beresheet / SpaceIL Photo) An Israeli lunar lander gets photobombed by Earth in a selfie released today by SpaceIL’s...

10:18pm, 21st February, 2019

Space

‘Big step for Israel’: SpaceX launches lunar lander along with high-flying satellites

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launches Indonesia’s Nusantara Satu telecommunications satellite as well as the Israeli Beresheet lunar lander and an Air Force research satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. (SpaceX via YouTube) A Space...

Moon Direct: Mars maverick lays out his low-cost plan to set up lunar bases

1:18pm, 3rd November, 2018

Space

Moon Direct: Mars maverick lays out his low-cost plan to set up lunar bases

Mars Society President Robert Zubrin provides a guided tour of future space missions during a talk at the University of Washington. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) For decades, rocket scientist Robert Zubrin has been a voice crying in the Martian wilde...

Get a piece of the rock: Large lunar meteorite known as ‘The Moon Puzzle’ to go up for auction

3:19pm, 9th October, 2018

Space

Get a piece of the rock: Large lunar meteorite known as ‘The Moon Puzzle’ to go up for auction

“The Moon Puzzle,” a meteorite comprised of six fragments that fit together, puzzle-like, to form a mass weighing slightly over 12 pounds. (RR Auction Photo) Anyone interested in meteorite science is going to be over the moon when it comes to an item...

Moon Express brings in $12.5M in backing for its lunar lander and Florida facilities

3:35pm, 1st October, 2018

Space

Moon Express brings in $12.5M in backing for its lunar lander and Florida facilities

An artist’s conception shows Moon Express’ MX-1E spacecraft making its approach to the moon. (Moon Express Illustration) , which aims to start missions to the moon within the next couple of years, says it has raised $2.5 million in bridge financing a...

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Blue Moon and beyond: How Jeff Bezos plans to take civilization to space, starting with lunar colony

Jeff Bezos unveils Blue Moon lunar lander and shares updated vision for Blue Origin in space

Jeff Bezos unveils ‘Blue Moon’ lunar lander and shares updated vision for Blue Origin in space

Beresheet bummer: Investigation of Israeli lunar lander’s crash points to human factor

Israeli Spacecraft Fails to Make First Private Lunar Landing

Israeli lunar lander looks back at Earth

‘Big step for Israel’: SpaceX launches lunar lander along with high-flying satellites

Moon Direct: Mars maverick lays out his low-cost plan to set up lunar bases

Get a piece of the rock: Large lunar meteorite known as ‘The Moon Puzzle’ to go up for auction

Moon Express brings in $12.5M in backing for its lunar lander and Florida facilities

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