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  • Illustration by Todd St. John of a space telescope with eye looking towards stars
    From The New Yorker Magazine: A few months ago, I flew to Houston to visit a small startup called Lunar Resources, which aspires to build the largest telescope in the solar system—not on Earth but on the far side of the moon. Houston is nicknamed
  • Popular Mechanics article Orion Spacecraft artist illustration NASA
    From Popular Mechanics: They met with astrophysicist Jack Burns, a member of President Trump's NASA transition team, to learn alittle about what we can expect from the agency moving forward. If you feel like NASA's been in limbo lately, you're
  • Jack Burns 9News Interview
    From 9News: Jessica Oh from 9News interviews Dr. Jack Burns and Keith Tauscher who are part of the team at the ²ÊÃñ±¦µä and NASA who are researching building observatories on the Moon. Watch the video...
  • An artist rendering showing the DARE observatory
    From Popular Mechanics: From probing the Dark Ages of the universe to building a telescope on the moon, pinpointing the light of the first star will be no easy task.Jack Burns is interested in the Dark Ages of the universe. His primary research team
  • Far Side of the Moon LROC
    From ²ÊÃñ±¦µä Today: A ²ÊÃñ±¦µä team has entered into a five-year, $3.5-million cooperative agreement with NASA to become part of a virtual institute to pursue the construction of astronomical observatories on the moon.The
  • NASA Selects News Research Teams graphic
    From NASA: NASA Selects New Research Teams to Further Solar System Exploration ResearchIn an effort to advance basic and applied research for lunar and planetary science, and advance human exploration of the solar system through scientific discovery
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