Our #Apollo50th anniversary of the Moon landing is being celebrated in a different kind of way on the International Space Station: By welcoming three new crew members on board, including NASA Astronaut Andrew Morgan. All this and more on the latest episode of NASA’s Space to Ground:
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Lunar bricks could keep Moon colonists warm and generate electricity
Space engineers have long considered lunar soil as locally available material for building outposts on the Moon, and now ESA researchers are considering it as a means to store energy. The Discovery & Preparation study by the agency and Azimut Space aims to determine how the lunar regolith can soak up solar energy during the day, then use it to generate electricity during the 14-day night and protect equipment against freezing.
Watch three astronauts launch to space on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing
Going to space on a very important day.
Astronauts Will Launch to Space Station 50 Years After Apollo 11 Moon Landing: Watch Live!
Liftoff is at 12:28 p.m. EDT (1628 GMT).
