Tricks of the TradeTrump's Second TermMy EconomyI've Always Wondered ...

Loading...

0:00
0% played
Support the fact-based journalism you rely on with a donation to Marketplace today. Give Now!
Stories Tagged as

Moon

A new moon race is underway

by Sabri Ben-Achour and Erika Soderstrom
Feb 15, 2023
And this it's private companies that are racing to get to the moon first.
Along with NASA, there are a bunch of organizations that want to send stuff to the moon. And now there are companies willing to take things there.
Matt Cardy/Getty Images
ListenLISTEN
HTML EMBED:
COPY
EMBED EMBED
Share Now on:
SHARE
Subscribe Using:
SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE

The new moon mission

by Victoria Craig
Nov 27, 2019
This week in Spain, European research ministers are discussing how to allocate as much as $14 billion over three years to the European Space Agency.
Matt Cardy/Getty Images
ListenLISTEN
HTML EMBED:
COPY
EMBED EMBED
Share Now on:
SHARE
Make Me Smart With Kai and Molly

What the economy of Artemis can tell us about life on Earth

by Phoebe Unterman
Nov 28, 2017
Sci-fi writer Andy Weir predicts the future of space travel using today's air travel data.
A view of Earth appears over the lunar horizon from Apollo 11 before astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. made their historic moon walk.
Photo by NASA/Newsmakers
Share Now on:
SHARE

Astronaut Chris Hadfield on living above the sky

by Eliza Mills
Apr 30, 2015
A Canadian astronaut talks about singing in space and the future of living away from Earth.
ListenLISTEN
HTML EMBED:
COPY
EMBED EMBED
Share Now on:
SHARE
Subscribe Using:
SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE

Want faster internet connection? Go to the moon.

by Stacey Vanek Smith
May 29, 2014
Scientists from NASA and MIT have developed a way to create a wi-fi hotspot on the moon.
So it's made out of cheese AND is a wi-fi hot spot?
David DeHetre / Creative Commons
Share Now on:
SHARE
Subscribe Using:
SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE

Marketing the moon

by Kai Ryssdal
Apr 14, 2014
How a marketing campaign helped the U.S. win the space race.
ListenLISTEN
HTML EMBED:
COPY
EMBED EMBED
Share Now on:
SHARE
Subscribe Using:
SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE

NASA will go to Mars, but not before 'putting a baggie' on an asteroid

by Molly Wood
Dec 9, 2013
Before NASA goes to Mars, it will first return to the Moon and capture an asteroid.
ListenLISTEN
HTML EMBED:
COPY
EMBED EMBED
Share Now on:
SHARE
Subscribe Using:
SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE

For public good, not for profit.

Donate
Codebreaker

NASA footage shows meteor crashing into moon

by Molly Wood
May 21, 2013
Things crashing into the moon -- that's how the third Transformers movie starts right? Sorry Michael Bay, when it comes to explosions, we'd rather watch the NASA source footage.
Share Now on:
SHARE
Subscribe Using:
SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE

NASA's GRAIL mission, and the National Intelligence Council's predictions for the year 2030

by Molly Wood
Dec 17, 2012
Two spacecraft will crash into the moon today at the end of their orbiting mission to map the celestial body, and the National Intelligence Council has made predictions about our bionic lifestyle in 20 years.
ListenLISTEN
HTML EMBED:
COPY
EMBED EMBED
Share Now on:
SHARE
Subscribe Using:
SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE

Company looks to return people to the moon

by David Gura
Dec 6, 2012
The Golden Spike Company sees business opportunities in going back to the moon.
ListenLISTEN
HTML EMBED:
COPY
EMBED EMBED
Share Now on:
SHARE
Subscribe Using:
SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE