Met de mogelijke terugkeer van mensen op de maan in 2024 is onze naaste buur het middelpunt van de belangstelling. Artemis is de naam van het nieuwe programma. Artemis was het zusje van Apollo. En laat het nu toch wel 50 jaar geleden zijn dat de vlucht van Apollo 10 plaats had. En extra aandacht voor de maan is er door Chang’e 4, Beresheet en LRO. Onze aarde wordt ook niet vergeten, o.a. door ESA’s Living Planet Symposium. Met een mooi overzicht van het hedendaags aardonderzoek. Dat en veel meer in het Nieuws Uit De Ruimtevaart van deze week.

Bij de foto: De Apollo 10 maanlander daalde tot een 15 km boven het maanoppervlak om dan terug te keren naar de Apollo Command & Service Module.

Artemis, het nieuwe Apollo – Naar de maan in 2024.
NASA: NASA Highlights Moon 2024 Mission with FY 2020 Budget Amendment.

Space Policy Online: Trump requests $1,6 billion plus-up to NASA budget to return Americans to the moon by 2024.
Space Policy Online: Moon 2024 gets a name – Artemis.
Spaceflight Now: Trump adds $1.6 billion to NASA budget request to kick start ‘Artemis’ moon mission.
The New York Times: For Artemis Mission to Moon, NASA Seeks to Add Billions to Budget.
Parabolic Arc: Untangling the Numbers in NASA’s Supplemental Budget Request.
The Planetary Society: A Crash Program or Modest Proposal?
Collect Space: NASA names new moon landing program Artemis after Apollo's sister.

Space News: NASA seeks additional $1.6 billion for 2024 Moon plan.
Space News: Bridenstine says $1.6 billion at “low end” of funding needed to keep 2024 lunar landing on schedule.

Parabolic Arc: House Subcommittee Chairs Question Trump’s Proposed Moon Funding.
Space Policy Online: Draft House approps bill gives NASA more money, ignores Artemis.

SpaceQ: Accelerated NASA moon landing plan doesn’t need Canadian robotic system.
SpaceQ: US Moon plans are causing concern for the international partners including Canada.

News Monkey: Plannen maanlanding 2024 bekend: Blue Origin en Lockheed Martin vliegen elkaar in haren om maanlander te mogen ontwerpen.

Filmpjes:
NASA: Administrator Bridenstine on Budget Amendment Supporting Humans on Moon in 2024.
NASA: We are going.

Details over het gevraagde budget vind je hier.
NASA’s Moon2Mars website vind je hier.

Artemis – Op zoek naar maanlanders.
NASA: NASA Taps 11 American Companies to Advance Human Lunar Landers.
Ars Technica: NASA chooses companies to design part of its Artemis lunar lander.
Space News: NASA selects 11 companies for lunar lander studies.

Teslarati: SpaceX wins NASA funds to study a Falcon Heavy-launched Moon lander.

Mars is nog niet vergeten.
Geek Wire: Amid the talk about moon missions, Mars fans push for a share of the space spotlight.
SpaceCom: Will NASA's Rush to Land Astronauts on the Moon Get Us to Mars Any Faster?

De website van Humans To Mars vind je hier.
Filmpjes van het Humans To Mars 2019 Summit vind je o.a. hier.

NASA: So You Want to Go to Mars? How Does NASA's History Help Future Exploration? (filmpje).
SpaceCom: Are Astronauts Worth Tens of Billions of Dollars in Extra Costs to go to Mars?

SLS/Orion.
NASA: SLS Begins Insulation Process for Booster Segments for Second Flight.

NasaSpaceFlight: NASA looking at SLS certification schedule changes in ‘Drive to EM-1’.
NasaSpaceFlight: NASA EGS Launch Team begins EM-1 countdown simulations.

NASA: Good Vibrations: Orion Crew Module Undergoes Testing.

Nog een filmpje:
NASA: Rocket Science in 60 Seconds: What Is the Space Launch System?

China lanceert navigatiesatelliet.
NasaSpaceFlight: Long March-3C lofts Beidou-2G8 (GEO-8)

Filmpjes:
CGTN: China launches its latest BeiDou navigation satellite.
SciNews: Long March-3C launches BeiDou-2 GEO-8 satellite.

SpaceX – Lancering van 60 Starlink-satellieten uitgesteld.
Teslarati: SpaceX static fires Falcon 9 with satellites on board for the first time in years
Teslarati: SpaceX reveals new Starlink satellite details 24 hours from launch.
Teslarati: SpaceX has all the Starlink funding needed for an “operational constellation”.
Teslarati: SpaceX’s Starlink satellites need a software update but Falcon 9 is doing fine.

NasaSpaceFlight: First Starlink mission – realigned to next week – to be heaviest payload launch by SpaceX to date.

Space News: Musk says Starlink “economically viable” with around 1,000 satellites.
Spaceflight Now: SpaceX releases new details on Starlink satellite design

Scientific Amercian: SpaceX’s Starlink Could Cause Cascades of Space Junk.

Spaceflight Now: Falcon 9 launch timeline for the Starlink 1 mission.

SpaceX – Starship.
Teslarati: SpaceX is constructing a second Starship prototype.
Ars Technica: SpaceX plans to A/B test its Starship rocketship builds.

Teslarati: SpaceX’s Starship could launch secret Turkish satellite, says Gwynne Shotwell.

NasaSpaceFlight: SpaceX considering SSTO Starship launches from Pad 39A.
De reactie van Musk vind je hier.

Commercial Crew – Veiligheid is belangrijk.
NASA KSC: Safety a Top Priority of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (filmpje).
Space News: Parachute development a challenge for commercial crew.

ISS – Een update.
Een filmpje (met eveneens het wekelijkse Space to Ground):
NASA: SpaceCast Weekly May 17, 2019.

Living Planet Symposium (Milaan).
ESA: Space Station science looking at earth.
ESA: New potential for tracking severe storms.
ESA: Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier bucks the trend.
ESA: Mapping salty waters.
ESA: How Venus and Mars can teach us about earth.
ESA: Magnetic North Pole.
ESA: Water Cycle Wrapped.
ESA: 3D Earth in the making.
ESA: Monitoring Earth’s shifting land.
ESA: SWARM helps explain earth’s magnetic jerks.
ESA: The air we breathe.
ESA: Satellites yield insight into not so permanent permafrost.
ESA: Mission Control “saves science”.

Wat filmpjes:
ESA: Living Planet Symposium opens.
ESA: Ice coverage.
ESA: ESA’s Earth Explorers surpassing expectations.
ESA: Highlights from ESA’s Living Planet symposium.

Mars – De “mol” van InSight nog steeds in de problemen.
Aviation Week: Mars Insight Heat Probe Detective Work Continues.
Space News: Troubleshooting of Mars InSight instrument continues.

Spaceflight Insider: InSight dust cleanings could provide new science.

Maanbevingen een gevaar voor toekomstige bewoners?
NASA: Shrinking Moon May Be Generating Moonquakes.
NASA JPL: Study Finds New Wrinkles on Earth's Moon.
New Scientist: Apollo-era moonquakes suggest lunar colonies must be shake-proof.
PhysOrg: The moon is quaking as it shrinks.

Eerste resultaten Chang’e 4.
PhysOrg: China's Chang'E 4 mission discovers new 'secrets' from the far side of the moon.
Science News: China’s lunar rover may have found minerals from the moon’s mantle.
Cosmos: Chinese lander offers clues to the inside of the moon.
New Scientist: China's rover peeks under the crust of the far side of the moon.
The Planetary Society: Chang’e-4 may have discovered material from the Moon’s mantle.
Ars Technica: China’s Chang’E-4 may have landed near pieces of the Moon’s interior.

Inslagkrater Beresheet gevonden.
NASA: Beresheet Impact Site Spotted.
The Planetary Society: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Images Beresheet Impact Site.
Video From Space: Beresheet Spacecraft's Moon Crash Site Seen by Orbiter (filmpje).

The Jerusalem Post: Genesis Prize announces $1 million grant to support Beresheet 2.

Meer nieuws uit de (inter)planetaire ruimte.

Aarde:
BBC: Aeolus: Wind-mapping space laser is losing power.
Space News: Dozens of satellites could feed NOAA’s future weather models.
NASA: NASA's GRACE: What We've Learned from Water in Motion.
CSA: RADARSAT Constellation Mission : Finding solutions for a better Canada (filmpje).
SpaceQ: Transporting the Radarsat constellation mission to the launch site is not as easy as you might think.
Sputnik News: Strong Magnetic Storm May Cause Satellites to Deorbit - Russian Academy.
PhysOrg: Wandering Earth: Rocket scientist explains how we could move our planet.

Venus:
ESA: Earth’s evil twin.

Mars:
The Martian Chronicles: Sol 2407: Turning our wheels.
Space Ref: How The Sun Pumps Out Water From Mars Into Space.
NASA: NASA’s Curiosity Finds Climate Clues on a Martian Mountain.
NASA: Video: Fly over Mount Sharp on Mars.
NASA: NASA's MRO Completes 60,000 Trips Around Mars.
ESA: From canals to craters.
DLR: Lowell Crater - a bullseye on Mars.
NASA: Mars 2020 Is Coming Together.

Saturnus: 
NASA JPL: Destination: Titan (filmpje).

Ryugu:
NipponCom: Hayabusa2 Aborts Attempt to Drop Marker near Asteroid Crater.

Bennu:
The Planetary Society: Here's a Roundup of Recent OSIRIS-REx Postcards from Bennu.

Op de rand van het zonnestelsel:
SpaceCom: NASA's Voyager and Pioneer Probes Launched Decades Ago and Are Still Out There. Here's Where They'll End Up.

Apollo 10 – 50 Jaar geleden.
NASA: 50 Years Ago: Apollo 10 “a great amount of team work”
NASA: Apollo 10: ‘Tell the world, we have arrived’ (filmpje).

SpaceCom: Apollo 10: Lunar Landing Dress Rehearsal.
SpaceCom: Snoopy to the Moon! Apollo 10 Commander Looks Back on Historic Flight 50 Years Ago.
NYT: Why Apollo 10 Stopped Just 47,000 Feet From the Moon.
Collect Space: Snoopy, Charlie Brown wrap space station node in new art installation.

Houston, We Have a Podcast: Apollo 10.
Smithsonian: A Smithsonian Curator Reflects on Apollo 10, the Mission That Made Landing on the Moon Possible.

Seeker: Apollo 10 Almost Crashed Into the Moon | Apollo     (over Apollo 9 en 10) (filmpje)

Ook dat nog: GoT Binge-watching in het ISS.
The Atlantic: Even Astronauts Binge-Watch TV While in Space.

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