1. Skip to content
  2. Skip to main menu
  3. Skip to more DW sites
In focus
German election 2025SyriaCrisis in the Middle East
Latest audioLatest videos
Live TV

Reach for the Moon

May 12, 2022

The moon has once again become the focus of space travel. Several missions are launching in the near future. Why? And what do we know about Earth's closest neighbor?

https://p.dw.com/p/4BCkm
Mond Harrison H. Schmitt Apollo 17
Image: NASA/Eugene Cernan
Mond
Image: Michael Sohn/AP Photo/picture alliance

The moon, our celestial companion

The moon has been orbiting the Earth for billions of years. The first moon missions over fifty years ago helped reveal its secrets. Now it is once again becoming a focus of research and space travel, not least due to its raw materials.

 

DW Projekt Zukunft - Ziegelsteine aus Mondstaub
Image: SWR

Moon bricks

They look a bit crumbly but their inventor calls them a novelty in human history: bricks made of lunar soil. A materials researcher at the German Aerospace Center in Cologne is currently developing a process that could be used in building structures, paving paths and laying foundations on the moon.

 

BdTD Regenbogen über dem Schwarzwald
Image: Uli Deck/dpa/picture alliance

Just ask! How is a rainbow made?

This week's question comes from Frederick in Ghana.

 

 

Broadcasting Hours:

DW English

SAT 14.05.2022 – 03:30 UTC
SUN 15.05.2022 – 21:30 UTC
MON 16.05.2022 – 05:30 UTC
MON 16.05.2022 – 07:30 UTC
MON 16.05.2022 – 15:30 UTC
MON 16.05.2022 – 22:30 UTC
TUE 17.05.2022 – 10:30 UTC

Lagos UTC +1 | Cape Town UTC +2 | Nairobi UTC +3
Delhi UTC +5,5 | Bangkok UTC +7 | Hong Kong UTC +8
London UTC +1 | Berlin UTC +2 | Moscow UTC +3
San Francisco UTC -7 | Edmonton UTC -6 | New York UTC -4

DW Deutsch+

MON 16.05.2022 – 07:30 UTC

Vancouver UTC -7 | New York UTC -4 | Sao Paulo UTC -3