Bad news from Kaguya (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/new-moon-uranium-map-100622.html).

Apparently, uranium is quite rare at the Lunar surface, which makes it improbable that Lunar uranium will be exportable. I do take issue with this ( Read more... )

BackgroundAs I'm sure everyone knows by now, Barack Obama has ordered the abandonment of the American Constellation rocket program, whose principal aim was the American return to the Moon (http://www.space.com/news/obama-nasa-space-plan-reactions-100128 ( Read more... )

Inspired by, and also posted to as a comment, johncwright's post at http://johncwright.livejournal.com/281607.html

====While the very first Lunar outposts will be surface huts with some regolith tossed on top for radiation shielding, I think it's almost inevitable that within 100-200 years from now ( Read more... )

Read the following today ( Read more... )

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/070912_techwed_kaguyamoon.html

This is three tons and carries every kind of instrument to suit a Lunar geologist's fondest dreams. Highlights:

The 6,000-pound (2,271-kilogram) Kaguya spacecraft is a nearly ( Read more... )