From the Coloradan Alumni Magazine: On Dec. 13, 1972, Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan stepped off the surface of the moon and onto a ladder leading up the Challenger lunar module. “We leave as we came,” he’d proclaimed a moment earlier, “and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace...
Colorado Public Radio, Colorado Matters Podcast: Denver voters decriminalized psychedelic mushrooms—now what? Then, homelessness is an issue in Denver's mayoral runoff. Next, a CU scientist is shaping the new U.S. plan to go to the moon. Plus, Dixie Rinehart designed space gloves. Also, Chinese tariffs could impact agriculture. Then, recalling...
From The New York Times: NASA officials on Monday evening unveiled an updated budget request to Congress, seeking more than $1 billion in additional funding in what they called a down payment to accelerate the return of astronauts to the moon by 2024. Jim Bridenstine, NASA’s administrator, also said that...
From SpaceNews: Commentary by Jack Burns - At the recent National Space Council meeting, U.S. Vice President Pence challenged the nation to begin exploring space again with a human mission to the moon’s south pole by 2024. Public-private-academic partnerships will help us accelerate a new lunar program. Such successful collaborations...
From The New Yorker: In January, the China National Space Administration landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon, the side we can’t see from Earth. Chang’e-4 was named for a goddess in Chinese mythology, who lives on the moon for reasons connected to her husband’s problematic immortality...
From CU Boulder Today and Brainwaves: Before humans venture farther into space, we have big questions to answer. When and where will we go? How will our bodies handle those harsh environments? How will we interact with life we find there? Experts weigh in on those questions in this episode...
From The Coalition for Deep Space Exploration: Please join the Coalition for Deep Space Exploration for "Ask Me Anything" event with experts on the future of Human Space Exploration. Read more...
From the Daily Camera: Vice President Mike Pence, chair of the National Space Council, on Tuesday called for a landing of American astronauts at the south pole of the moon by 2024. The pledge by Pence, which he said carried the backing of President Donald Trump, came at the fifth...
From NASA: Vice President Mike Pence asked NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine to accelerate the agency’s lunar exploration plans during a National Space Council meeting held at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, March 26. In addition to targeting a human landing on the Moon in 2024, the council...
From WIRED: In December 2017, roughly a year into his tenure as president, Donald Trump directed NASA to develop a plan to return American astronauts to the moon. Since then, the government has released few details about what this mission would look like. But Tuesday, at the fifth meeting of...