Lockheed Martin's concept for a commercial lunar lander.

NASA Opens the Door to Commercial Moon Landing, including Two Colorado Companies

Jan. 22, 2019

From Colorado Public Radio - Colorado Matters: Two Colorado companies are getting into the delivery business. Not the two-day delivery kind, more like the 238,900-mile outer space kind. NASA is planning to tap the private aerospace industry to take their experiments to the lunar surface. Two of the nine approved...

NASA - Far side of the Moon

New Mission To Far Side Of The Moon Explores Origins Of The Universe

Jan. 9, 2019

From Colorado Public Radio - Colorado Matters: Fifty years after U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon, China landed a rover on the far side of the Moon last week for the first time in history. Jack Burns, an astrophysicist at CU 鶹, sees...

Chang’e-4 ready for attempted farside landing

China’s Chang’e-4 Ready for Farside Moon Landing

Dec. 31, 2018

From Inside Outer Space: The state-run China Daily reports January 1st that the country’s Chang’e 4 robotic probe is expected to land on the South Pole–Aitken basin on the Moon’s farside sometime between Wednesday and Thursday, citing information from China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, a major contractor of the...

Photo of Harrison Schmitt

Apollo astronaut visits campus, shares tales from the moon

Oct. 30, 2018

From CU 鶹 Today: Apollo astronaut visits campus, shares tales from the moon This week, Harrison “Jack” Schmitt, an Apollo-era astronaut and the last person to set foot on the moon, gave a group of CU 鶹 students the chance to see something rare: color on the lunar surface. Schmitt,...

China’s Moon Mission Chang’e 3 photo

China’s Moon Mission to Boldly Go a Step Further

Dec. 31, 2017

From The Guardian: This time next year, there may be a new world leader in lunar exploration. If all goes according to plan, China will have done something no other space-faring superpower has been able to do: land on the far side of the moon. China is rocketing ahead with...