back to article Chinese fireworks, Indian orbits, and NASA names Maxar as maker of its first Moon module

Last week the Champagne corks were popping as SpaceX flung Starlink into orbit and the achievements of Apollo 10 were celebrated. There was, however, plenty of other space news to go around. Boomtime for China (and not in a good way) China's launch programme sputtered once again with the failure of a Long March 4C rocket …

  1. RunawayLoop

    So if/when 'merica does return to the moon, lets have the astronaut(s) land at or do a flyby over the sea of tranquility and take some very high def pics of what is there so that we can settle this one once and for all, shall we? Hmmm... I guess NASA's response to this proposal might answer the question anyway.

    1. pop_corn

      It's already been done with the satellites now orbiting the moon:

      https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.html

      Not to mention that we can and have double checked by bouncing a laser off the reflectors they left behind on the moon:

      https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mlszp

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    3. Anonymous Coward
      Alien

      Would people trust any photo/movie today? Someone will tell you it was done in 24K CGI using an alien quantum computer stored in Area 51....

      1. Michael H.F. Wilkinson Silver badge
        Mushroom

        Some complete idiot will tell you it was done in 24K CGI using an alien quantum computer stored in Area 51....

        FTFY

        Icon, because on my favourite astronomy forum any user spouting moon-landing conspiracy stories gets his/her account nuked

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