Washington DC (SPX) Sep 05, 2012 - NASA's twin, lunar-orbiting Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft began data collection for the start of the mission's extended operations. At 9:28 a.m. PDT (12:28 p.m. EDT) ye
Washington (AFP) Aug 31, 2012 - Flags flew at half staff across the United States on Friday as family, friends and fellow astronauts gathered in Ohio to remember Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon.
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 31, 2012 - Small patches of ice could make up at most five to ten percent of material in walls of Shackleton crater. Scientists using the Mini-RF radar on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) have estimat
Oxford UK (SPX) Aug 30, 2012 - The Moon is believed to have formed from a collision, 4.5 billion years ago, between Earth and an impactor the size of Mars, known as Theia. Over the past decades scientists have simulated this pr
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Aug 30, 2012 - Russia has proposed a joint project with Kazakhstan and Ukraine to build a heavy rocket capable of launching manned missions to the Moon. It believes this project could be accomplished within three
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2012 - Heralding the change in season, a full Moon will rise in the eastern twilight sky on August 31st for the second time this month (the first time came on August 1st). Many people use the expression o
Los Angeles (AFP) Aug 28, 2012 - A series of autographs of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, will go under the hammer this week with auctioneers wondering if the sky's the limit for the prized signatures.
Washington (AFP) Aug 27, 2012 - Coming upon the Apollo 11 capsule at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on Monday, Matt Hehman did something that would have been unimaginable when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon 33 years ago.
Washington (AFP) Aug 26, 2012 - Tributes poured in Sunday following the death of Neil Armstrong, the humble US astronaut whose small step on the moon captivated the world and came to embody the wonder of space exploration.
Washington (AFP) Aug 25, 2012 - Famed US astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the moon, has died following complications from cardiovascular surgery, his family said Saturday. He was 82.
Washington (AFP) Aug 25, 2012 - A deeply saddened President Barack Obama on Saturday hailed late US space pioneer Neil Armstrong as one of the nation's greatest ever heroes, for having inspired a generation to reach for the stars.
Washington (AFP) Aug 25, 2012 - With one small step off a ladder, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, making him the most lauded American of the Cold War space race.
Madrid, Spain (XNA) Aug 22, 2012 - China Great Wall Industry Corporation will send a Spanish rover to the moon in June 2014, according to the Galactic Suite company which heads the Barcelona Moon Team that is competing in the Googl
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 17, 2012 - Scientists using the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have made the first spectroscopic observations of the noble gas helium in the tenuous atmosphere su
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
