Moon Race: U.S. Not Alone in Future Lunar Exploration


Moon Race: U.S. Not Alone in Future Lunar Exploration -- Leonard David  -- Space.com  -- April 26, 2006
Space Expansion

An unprecedented salvo of international probes will soon shoot for the Moon, all equipped to signal that a new era of lunar exploration has begun. If schedules hold, spacecraft from India, China and Japan will be moonbound before NASA's own Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter swings into action in 2008. Already on duty, the European Space Agency's SMART-1 is wrapping up its survey work.

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