The 365 Days of Astronomy Cheap Astronomy - Dear CA #115: The Next Steps
Two steps (at least).
Hosted by Steve Nerlich.
From June 25, 2024.
Dear Cheap Astronomy – So what can you do with lunar regolith?
Lunar regolith is readily available for use by space explorers, but just being available doesn’t mean it’s going to be useful. Nonetheless, there have been some interesting suggestions about what to do with it over the years since Apollo and now that we are in the Artemis era, this seems a good time to blow the moon-dust off some of those suggestions.
Dear Cheap Astronomy – Are we really not going to Mars in the 2030s?
Well, probably not. NASA’s moving target is now 2037, it was previously running with 2033 until an independent review looked at their current plan and said no way and also said no way to the next launch window in 2035, so it’s 2037 now – which Cheap Astronomy guesses will be pushed into 2040 in about three years. China is still talking about launching astronauts to Mars
in the 2033 launch window, but without a lot of details on how, excepting some hints that they might use nuclear technologies, at least for power if not propulsion.
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