Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 15, 2012 - The Mighty Eagle, a NASA robotic prototype lander, is soaring high again for a series of tests being conducted at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Since its last round
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2012 - The Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) announced a ten-million ruble ($300,000) tender on Thursday to develop a blueprint of a heavy rocket-carrier that would be capable of carrying manned spacecraft
Washington (AFP) July 30, 2012 - A series of American flags that were planted on the moon during visits by Apollo astronauts some four decades ago are still standing, except for one, a NASA scientist has said.
Moscow (XNA) Jul 24, 2012 - Russia has started building a spacecraft for manned Lunar missions with the first test scheduled in 2015, the project developer said Thursday. The work has already started. The unmanned tests are s
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jul 24, 2012 - Last Friday, July 20th, was the 43rd anniversary of mankind's first extraterrestrial visit to another heavenly body. The moon. Apollo 11 was the result of decades of work by tens of thousands of res
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jul 23, 2012 - Along with pure science, these plans include significant engineering advances in order to send rovers to the Moon, and return samples from its surface. Yet despite high ambitions, researchers are co
Moscow (UPI) Jul 20, 2012 - Russia's timetable for manned flights to the moon has been pushed back two more years with no launches until 2018, the head of Russia's space agency said.
Paris (ESA) Jun 26, 2012 - In 2013, a NASA satellite will beam digital signals to an ESA receiving station fast enough to stream dozens of movies at once. The test will help to demonstrate the readiness of next-generation opt
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 22, 2012 - NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned data that indicate ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in a crater located on the moon's south pole. The t
Boston MA (SPX) Jun 21, 2012 - If humans are ever to inhabit the moon, the lunar poles may well be the location of choice: Because of the small tilt of the lunar spin axis, the poles contain regions of near-permanent sunlight, ne
Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Jun 14, 2012 - A stunning discovery by QUT soil scientist Marek Zbik of nano particles inside bubbles of glass in lunar soil could solve the mystery of why the moon's surface topsoil has many unusual properties. D
Tuscaloosa AL (SPX) May 31, 2012 - In what's become a common theme in the past year, a team of University of Alabama students won a national championship. The latest championship came not on an athletic field, rather on a simulated l
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 30, 2012 - A NASA mission to study the moon from crust to core has completed its prime mission earlier than expected. The team of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, with twin prob
Washington DC (SPX) May 25, 2012 - NASA and the X Prize Foundation of Playa Vista, Calif., announced Thursday the Google Lunar X Prize is recognizing guidelines established by NASA to protect lunar historic sites and preserve ongoing
Sydney (AFP) May 24, 2012 - The famously private Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has been coaxed into giving a rare interview - with an Australian accountant.
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 04, 2012 - The full Moon has a reputation for trouble. It raises high tides, it makes dogs howl, it wakes you up in the middle of the night with beams of moonlight stealing through drapes. If a moonbeam wakes
