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Scientists discover lunar water samples in tiny glass beads from the Moon in studies published by the "Nature Geoscience" journal.
2023-03-27

NASA's "Orion" spacecraft performs a flyby of the Moon, coming within 130 km of the lunar surface before entering into a lunar orbit.
2022-11-21

NASA officially selects SpaceX, Blue Origin and Dynetics to build its next-generation lunar lander to carry American astronauts to the Moon by 2024.
2020-04-30

NASA announces it has completed its first full-power test of the Kilopower nuclear reactor for space. NASA intends to use the technology to power exploration missions to the Moon and Mars.
2018-05-2

U.S. President Donald Trump signs the "Space Policy Directive 1" that establishes the foundation for a crewed mission to the Moon, while also maintaining a longer-term NASA goal of landing a man on Mars.
2017-12-11

As predicted by NASA, the Apollo-group-type asteroid 2012 TC4 (approximately 15 m in diameter) passes a distance of 0.0003352 AU mi from Earth, well within the Moon's orbit.
2017-10-12

Brown University researchers discover that a substantial amount of water may be present beneath the surface of the Moon.
2017-07-24

NASA publishes LRO images of the two craters on the Moon, where twin GRAIL probes ended their gravity-mapping mission in December 2012.
2013-03-19

NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft crash into a mile-high cliff near the Lunar North Pole to close out a successful mission to map the Moon's gravity field with unprecedented precision.
2012-12-17

NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the moon.
2011-12-31