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China’s Chang’e-6 lunar far side sample return spacecraft entered orbit around the moon late Tuesday, in another step towards collecting lunar samples.

This is just one of the “sci-fi” projects NASA is working on now.

China’s Chang’e-6 spacecraft appears to carry a previously undisclosed lunar rover as part of the mission’s far side exploration plans.

China launched its complex and ambitious Chang’e-6 mission Friday to collect the first ever samples from the far side of the moon.

Nicaragua has joined the ILRS moon base program as China continues its push to attract partners for the project.

China's human spaceflight agency stated that China is on track to achieve its goal of sending its astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade.

Thailand has signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation on the China-led International Lunar Research Station (ILRS).

NASA picked three private space companies to create self-driving moon vehicles that the space agency could use to transport people and goods on the moon. Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and Venturi Astrolab were chosen to create a Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) for astronauts to explore the moon and operate without their presence.

The White House has requested NASA to create a new time zone for the moon. Arati Prabhakar, the head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), stated in a letter on Tuesday that the office wants NASA to establish a unified standard time for the moon and “celestial bodies other than Earth”…

Tracking data appears to show China is attempting to salvage spacecraft initially intended for the moon but left stranded by a rocket stage malfunction.