NASA Data Helps Commercial Space Plan Living Off Our Moon

The barren lunar landscape has some important resources, such as water and minerals like iron and titanium, but extracting and processing them will require special equipment. Where those resources can be found will dictate where to land and how to mine them. To help with that, Lunar Station Corp. is using a wealth of NASA […]

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  1. Most Successful Lunar Soft Landings by Nation: The United States leads with 11 successful soft landings, including all six crewed Apollo missions, followed by the Soviet Union (Russia) and China, with India and Japan also achieving recent successes.
  2. Historic Lunar Firsts by Nation: The Soviet Union achieved the first lunar flyby (Luna 1, 1959) and first soft landing (Luna 9, 1966), while the United States made the first human landing (Apollo 11, 1969) and is the only nation to have landed humans on the Moon.
  3. Ambitious Future Lunar Missions: NASA's Artemis program aims to return humans to the Moon by early 2028, establishing a permanent base with annual landings thereafter, while China also plans human missions around 2030, and private companies like Firefly Aerospace and Astrobotic are launching robotic cargo deliveries.

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