Beijing (IANS) Mar 19, 2012 - Preparations are on in China to launch a moon mission and bring about two kilogram of lunar soil samples to Earth, People's Daily reported Friday. The mission is part of the third phase of the
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 19, 2012 - In honor of 1,000 days in orbit, the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md. has released two new videos. One video takes viewers thro
Palo Alto, CA (SPX) Mar 16, 2012 - Space Systems/Loral has completed on time delivery of a new propulsion system to NASA. The propulsion system for the Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft was delivered to NA
Beijing (XNA) Mar 16, 2012 - China's second moon orbiter, the Chang'e-2, has performed outstandingly, a Chinese lawmaker close to the lunar exploration project said Tuesday. Chang'e-2 has more than achieved the goals set
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 16, 2012 - There's something poetic about gazing up at the night sky, seeing the familiar face of the Man in the Moon who faithfully accompanies us through life. The synchronous rotation of the Moon - it tak
Beijing (XNA) Mar 15, 2012 - China has begun designing and manufacturing the flight model entity of its third lunar probe, Chang'e-3, according to the administration of China's lunar probe project. As a key part of the se
Moscow (AFP) March 13, 2012 - Russia's crisis-hit space agency intends to send its first manned mission to the Moon and deploy research stations on Mars under an ambitious plan presented to the government this month.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 09, 2012 - NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft orbiting the moon officially have begun their science collection phase. During the next 84 days, scientists will obtain a hig
Boston MA (SPX) Mar 09, 2012 - In the nearly five decades since the first lunar surveys were conducted as part of NASA's Apollo program, scientists have advanced a number of increasingly complex theories to explain the vast swath
Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 09, 2012 - This image of the Apollo 11 landing site captured from just 24 km (15 miles) above the surface provides LRO's best look yet at humanity's first venture to another world. When Neil Armstrong took his
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 09, 2012 - This image shows the remnants of not one, but two missions to the moon. Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean demonstrated that a precision lunar landing with the Apollo system was possible
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 09, 2012 - The Apollo 15 Lunar Module (LM) Falcon set down on the Hadley plains (26.132 degrees N, 3.634 degrees E) a mere 2 kilometers from Hadley Rille. The goals: sample the basalts that compose the m
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 07, 2012 - Many of us see a man in the moon-a human face smiling down at us from the lunar surface. The face, of course, is just an illusion, shaped by the dark splotches of lunar maria (smooth plains formed
Paris (ESA) Mar 07, 2012 - Europe's ambition of touching down at the Moon's south pole by 2018 has been boosted by recent test firings of the craft's thrusters. The robot lander will prove new techniques for sending humans to
Beijing (XNA) Mar 06, 2012 - China's third lunar probe, Chang'e-3, is expected to be launched next year and conduct a moon landing and lunar explorations, its designer said. Different from the previous two orbiters, Chang
Moffett Field, CA (SPX) Mar 01, 2012 - A team of researchers from the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., have discovered that debris that caused a lunar cataclysm on the moon 4 bi
