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NASA reached an important milestone in preparation for the Artemis IV mission. Though still years away, NASA is already building a structure to support the bigger SLS rocket variant.

We have several launches coming up this week, but the most notable will be the Chang'e mission taking off to collect lunar samples and return them to Earth. Read on to learn more about the mission.

Odysseus, the moon lander that made history for the U.S., hoped to surprise engineers and survive a long lunar night. However, the lander was not lucky enough to wake up from sleep.

The historic moon landing of the first commercial spacecraft was nothing short of a miracle. The public image of a smooth mission was far from what was actually happening behind the scenes.

The UK Space Agency has announced £7.4 million in funding for several global space projects. This funding will help the UK play a part in upcoming space exploration while keeping costs quite low.

This Week in Rocket Launches we have a fair few missions coming up. Japan will be doing the second test flight of its H3 rocket while SpaceX will be launching another company's lunar lander.

India has successfully landed its Chandrayaan-3 mission on the south pole of the moon making India just the fourth country to land on the natural satellite. Russia failed a moon landing recently.

We have a number of launches upcoming this week but the most interesting among them is ISRO's lunar lander mission, Chandrayaan 3. It will go to space on an LVM3 rocket and replaces Chandrayaan 2.

There are several launches planned for this week. Among them is a private mission to the Moon that was originally scheduled for last week but got delayed. There's also a recap of this week's launches.

NASA is set to launch its historic Artemis I mission today. We will see the launch of the massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft will begin its journey to the Moon.

NASA will launch its Artemis I mission this week, the first in a long line of missions to return to the Moon. SpaceX will launch more Starlink satellites, and Blue Origin will ferry NASA satellites.

We have some interesting launches due this week. Not only will Blue Origin send more tourists to the edge of space, but South Korea will send its first lunar mission to the Moon with SpaceX's help.

This week, Rocket Lab will reattempt to launch NASA's CAPSTONE mission and there's a slim possibility we could see the first launch of SpaceX's Super Heavy rocket carrying Starship.

This week we have a very exciting mission scheduled to take off. Rocket Lab will launch an Electron rocket carrying NASA's CAPSTONE CubeSat to the Moon to test the orbit of an upcoming space station.

NASA may launch its first Artemis unmanned test flight in February 2022. It will be an important step in the space agency's goal of returning to the moon by the end of this decade.

NASA has announced it'll carry out the final Green Run test for the SLS' core stage. This will be the final core stage test before Artemis I in November which will integrate SLS and Orion.

SpaceX has finally managed to land a Starship rocket, however, several minutes after, the vehicle exploded due to a fire which managed to reach the propellant which subsequently ignited.

Rocket Lab has announced plans for its upcoming Neutron rocket which will deliver larger satellites to space, go to other planets and launch with human crews. Neutron will be partially reusable too.

Japan will develop components for the Lunar Gateway's International Habitation (I-Hab) module. The I-Hab module is currently slated to be sent to space in 2026, two years after Gateway's launch.

If the mission is successful, China will become only the third country to collect and bring back rock samples from the Moon to the Earth—a feat that has not been attempted for the past four decades.

NASA has found water on the Moon's sunlit surface using a flying observatory known as SOFIA. It raises questions about how the water is arriving there in the first place and how it's stored.

Finland's Nokia has been selected by NASA to build the first cellular network on the Moon. The network is expected to be installed in late 2022 with the help of a private spacecraft design firm.

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has revealed its Lunar Pathfinder mission which will give lunar missions affordable communications satellite. NASA is one expected user of the Lunar Pathfinder.

ISRO has announced that it has carried out Chandrayaan-2's Lunar Orbit Insertion, preparing it for the lander's separation and eventual landing on September 7. The work took almost 29 minutes.

India's ISRO has successfully launched its Chandrayaan-2 mission from its Sriharikota space centre. If all goes to plan, India will be the fourth country to do a soft landing on the Moon.

China has launched a new relay satellite into the second Lagrangian of the Earth-Moon system. It will send data between the Chang'e 4 rover, due for launch this year, and the Earth.

A team of scientists studied data from two Apollo missions and the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and found evidence of water in almost every single lunar deposit that was a result of a volcanic eruption.

Five projects involved with the Google Lunar XPrize have been given the OK to launch their projects to the Moon this year. As part of the competition projects must be launched by December 31, 2017.