Human missions
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5 years ago
Video Chat From Outer Space With These Custom Wallpapers
Planetary.orgSince some services like Zoom allow you to create virtual backgrounds, I thought I might offer you the opportunity to take your home office to Mars, or the Moon, or other fun places in space.
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5 years ago
Video Chat From Outer Space With These Custom Wallpapers
Planetary.orgSince some services like Zoom allow you to create virtual backgrounds, The Planetary Society offers you the opportunity to take your home office to Mars, or the Moon, or other fun places in space.
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5 years ago
Is the Moon a Stepping Stone or a Cornerstone for Mars?
Planetary.orgNew legislation proposed in the House of Representatives would radically shift NASA's human spaceflight efforts away from the Moon and back to Mars.
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5 years ago
NASA Rings in the New Year with $22.6 billion
Planetary.orgNASA's final 2020 budget rejected every major cut proposed by the Trump Administration, increased funding for popular congressional projects such as the Space Launch System, and underfunded several key administration proposals, including a human-qualified lunar lander and low-Earth orbit commercialization projects.
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5 years ago
The Downlink: Mars 2020 Ready to Rove, India to Build Second Lunar Lander
Planetary.orgPlanetary exploration news for busy people
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5 years ago
The Most Important Space Policy Events of the 2010s
Planetary.orgThe end of the Space Shuttle, the rise of public-private partnerships, and the return to the Moon. As the 2010s come to a close, what were the most impactful events that shaped U.S. space policy?
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5 years ago
The Downlink: Southern Sky from Space, Apollo Moon Sample Opened
Planetary.orgPlanetary exploration news for busy people
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6 years ago
The Downlink: NASA Works to Save Mars Experiment, Saturn Gets 20 New Moons
Planetary.orgPlanetary exploration news for busy people
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6 years ago
India's Vikram Spacecraft Apparently Crash-Lands on Moon
Planetary.orgCommunications were lost with the lander, which was carrying a small rover named Pragyan to the lunar surface.
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6 years ago
Where We Are
Planetary.orgWe lost and gained spacecraft at the Moon last quarter. India’s Chandrayaan-2 left Earth orbit for the Moon on 13 August, and its Vikram lander aims at a 7 September touchdown. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter just celebrated its tenth launch anniversary. China’s smallsat Longjiang-2 crashed on 31 July, ending its successful mission.
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