Return to the Moon

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    From 5280 Magazine: “If you would’ve told me in 1972 that we wouldn’t be back to the moon for 50 years,” says Jack Burns, a professor of astrophysics at Âé¶ą´«Ă˝, “I would have said you are full of you-know-what.” Burns has a special interest in
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    From CU On the Air Podcast:ĚýSince the late 1940s, the University of Colorado Boulder has sent important experiments and instruments to every planet in our solar system. In 50+ space missions, NASA spacecraft have launched hundreds of
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    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
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    Colorado Public Radio, Colorado Matters Podcast:ĚýDenver 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,
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    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
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    ĚýFrom 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
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    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
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    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
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    From Nature: Plans to return to the Moon are getting serious. Last month, US President Donald Trump declared that the next time US astronauts blast off, they will be headed to our rocky satellite. In September, the European Space Agency made its
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