Jack J. Fox, the Chief of Science and Technology Projects Division for NASA Kennedy Space Center, recently sent a letter to the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems. It reads as follows: During our 2015 field testing of the robotic Vertical...
This time 50 years ago, Soviet automatic lunar station Luna-9 landed on the moon. The spacecraft was the first to make a soft landing on the lunar surface. Luna-9 landed west of the Reiner and Marius craters in the Ocean of Storms, opening a new stage in the...
Ham the Chimpanzee. Credit: NASA January 31 marked the 55th anniversary of when Ham the Chimpanzee went to space on the Mercury Redstone-2 launch. According to an article in Space.com, Jan. 31 also marked the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Soviet moon lander...
The Pacific International Space Center for Exploration (PISCES) recently published this video of the lunar landing pad, or Vertical Take-off/Vertical Landing Pad. The video, made by PISCES Project Manager Rodrigo Romo, captures the months-long process of our rover...
China will be sending the Chang’e-4 probe to the far side of the Moon in 2018, said China’s Xinhua on Friday. “The far side of the moon is never visible to earth because of gravitational forces and has never been explored by humans,” Chief of...
