Moon dust is not a poetic flourish, it is a mission risk that can grind through metal, clog joints, and threaten astronaut lungs. As NASA prepares to send crews back to the lunar surface for longer ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amy Fritz, a dust-mitigation researcher at Johnson Space Center, pours simulated lunar dust into a bed tray for testing hardware ...
Moon missions are hot again for the first bit since the space race. While the previous period had us land on the big lunar ...
Dust. In your home, it’s a hassle. On the moon, it can be downright hazardous. The weak gravity of the lunar surface makes it easy to kick moon dust up into floating clouds. Particles are clingy and ...
A $6 million University of Colorado Boulder instrument designed to study the behavior of lunar dust will be riding on a NASA mission to the moon now slated for launch on Friday, Sept. 6, from the ...
Moon dust is sharp, corrosive, and potentially fatal. NASA’s new electric force field shield is designed to blast it away. Amy Fritz, a dust-mitigation researcher at Johnson Space Center, pours ...