SPACEA new space resource law had been passed by Japan, showing the government's interest towards space relations, lunar industrialization, and the country's economic comeback.
NASA recently signed a contract worth almost 1 billion dollars to develop a lunar studio-type apartment. The HALO module will serve as a preparation for our return to the moon.
Russia is revisiting its Soviet space heritage for a new series of missions that would take the nation back to the moon. It is hoping to pick up where it left off in 1976.
NASA's Artemis program aims to land the first woman and the next man on the moon by 2024, hoping to pave the way to establish a lunar location for further space exploration missions - and a new study estimates the cost of living there.
The India Space Research Organisation was able to locate the crash site of India's Vikram lander last September 10 through the orbiter installed on the Chandrayaan-2; however, there is no communication with it yet.