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Engineers working on China's Chang'e-6 mission have foregone family reunions over the Lunar New Year to help get the spacecraft ready for launch. The components of the complex Chang'e-6 moon sample return mission arrived at Wenchang spaceport on Hainan island in early January. There, a team of engineers and researchers, many with extensive experience from the 2020 Chang'e-5 mission, is intensively testing and adjusting the equipment, according to a China Central Television (CCTV) report. The mission will make the first ever attempt at collecting material from the far side of the moon and deliver it to Earth for analysis. Launch is planned for around May. Zhang Yang, managing engineer of Chang'e-6, said that Spring Festival, as Lunar New Year is known in China, is a critical period for the mission. "We must ensure that the probe is in good condition, and each step we take is quality guaranteed," Zhang said. As Travel ing back to see families was not p...

Running out of gas is annoying at the best of times, let alone if you're a satellite traveling at speeds of up to 17,500 mph (28,200 km/h) high above Earth's surface. At the moment, a satellite that burns through all its fuel simply becomes space junk, adding to the vast debris field surrounding our planet. "It's the equivalent of buying a car with one tank of fuel in it, and you throw the car away when you run out of that fuel," Ray Fielding , head of space sustainability at the UK Space Agency, told Live Science. Often, the satellites are perfectly functional and just lack the fuel to maneuver around debris, he added. However, the space industry is aiming to change this paradigm by investing in projects that will allow satellites to be refueled and serviced in orbit. In addition to mitigating the growing problem of space junk , this more sustainable approach could cut down on wasted resources and reduce the costs associated with operating satellites. Rela...

NASA expert claims to have seen a 3 meter tall entity with 2 astronauts on a space mission A former NASA engineer claims to have seen a 10-foot-tall alien while monitoring a space mission . Clark McClelland reportedly had been part of a team based at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, when he saw the humanoid alien. The “ entity ”, he says, stood on two legs and approached the American astronauts , with whom he had a conversation that lasted one minute and several seconds. Clark McClelland was the “aero space engineer and NASA worker” who claimed to have participated in more than 660 space mission s between 1958 and 1992. In 2012 McClelland published a controversial video in which he claimed to have seen a three- meter humanoid entity on the shuttle space . . Clark McClelland, photographed while working with NASA. McClelland claimed to have observed (through his monitor) an entity giving commands to hum...

The UFO community found numerous anomalies after investigating thousands of official photos captured during the Apollo 17 moon mission. The UFO community found numerous anomalies after investigating thousands of official photos captured during the Apollo 17 moon mission. Apollo 17 was the last official mission of the American ‘Apollo’ program that brought the first astronauts to the Moon in 1972. During the 12-day lunar mission, the crew captured more than 8,400 photos of the lunar surface that are now available on NASA’s website . Years after the photos became available, UFO hunters discovered curious objects in some of the images that resemble spaceships, origins unknown. In fact, there are those who believe that the anomalies are simply reflections or lens flares, but the growing evidence tends to disprove these theories easily. Apollo 17 remains the most recent manned mission to the Moon, with no other astro...