Purdue Professor Helps Identify 4 Moon Sites for Future Astronaut Missions

Astronauts urged to visit these 4 moon sites by National Academies report

A National Academies of Sciences report released Wednesday urges NASA to consider landing sites beyond the south pole on the moon.

Purdue professor helps identify 4 moon sites for future astronaut missions

INDIANAPOLIS — A Purdue University professor is part of a NASA-sponsored study identifying four priority locations for future crewed missions to the Earth’s moon. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine released the report Wednesday. Dan Dumbacher, a professor of engineering practice at Purdue, served on the research team that identified the four sites […]

Report pinpoints future exploration sites on the moon

Besides building crewed outposts at the lunar south pole, where else should astronauts go on the moon? An authoritative new report has suggestions

Report Pinpoints Future Nonpolar Human Exploration Sites on the Moon

Earth’s Moon is deserved of wide-spread exploration, far beyond early robotic and human exploration of the lunar south pole – extraterrestrial real estate now within the sights of NASA’s Artemis program, as well as other nations. Outside of that lunar south pole target, yes indeed, the Moon is rife with attractive and scientifically important objectives […]