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NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon. Here’s what the law has to say

(The Conversation) – The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing on the Moon is old news. The new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power. In April ...
Scientific American

Why NASA wants to build a nuclear reactor on the moon

Nuclear power plants are safer than many suspect. But putting reactors in space is a concept with a checkered history. One notorious reactor caused an international incident in 1978 after it came ...
SpaceNews

NASA’s new moon base project requires operational technology systems in space, but they are vulnerable.

The Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft on the pad Feb. 1 during a wet dress rehearsal for the Artemis 2 mission. Credit: NASA/Sam Lott Newly anointed NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman made a $20 ...

Rovers, regolith, robots: The blueprint for the moon

The "soil" blanketing the moon's surface isn't actually soil. It's a fine, lethal, abrasive powder of shattered rock and ...
USA Today

Did we really land on the moon? Artemis II photos, conspiracies debunked

Artemis II launched April 1, 2026, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking the first crewed moon mission in 54 years. What is Artemis II? 4 astronauts will journey around the moon but ...