Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 28, 2012 - China announces its next manned spaceflight to be launched next summer. What are the implications for 'senior space powers'? On February 21, Chinese space officials announced that the next manned Sh
San Diego CA (SPX) Feb 23, 2012 - The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has found evidence that areas of the moon's surface stretched some within the past 50 million years, creating tiny valleys. The discovery was
Grenoble, France (SPX) Feb 21, 2012 - Contrary to Earth, our Moon has no active volcanoes, and the traces of its past volcanic activity date from billions of years ago. This is surprising, because recent Moonquake data suggest that ther
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 21, 2012 - The moon is again in the focus of world space exploration. Recently water was discovered on the moon - something scientists did not expect to find. This could lead to the establishment of lunar base
Greenbelt, MD (SPX) Feb 21, 2012 - New images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft show the moon's crust is being stretched, forming minute valleys in a few small areas on the lunar surface. Scientists propose th
Beijing, China (XNA) Feb 09, 2012 - China on Monday published a full coverage map of the moon, as well as several high-resolution images of the celestial body, captured by the country's second moon orbiter, the Chang'e-2. The ma
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Feb 06, 2012 - A crewed mission to the moon is possible by 2020, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station on Thursday. Today sc
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 02, 2012 - A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the far side of the moon. MoonKAM, or Moon Knowledge Acquir
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jan 31, 2012 - Last Week, while addressing a Florida Space Coast audience, GOP candidate Newt Gingrich pledged to create a moon colony if elected president. This may at first seem far-fetched and an act of panderi
Washington DC (RIA Novosti) Jan 30, 2012 - US Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has promised to build a moon base by 2020 if he becomes the next U.S. President in November, the Former Speaker of the House of Representatives said
Washington (AFP) Jan 26, 2012 - Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has stirred strong passions by claiming he will establish a permanent moon base by 2020 if elected, but experts say he is living on another planet.
Jacksonville, Florida (AFP) Jan 26, 2012 - Republican White House hopefuls set their sights high Thursday with some vowing they would shoot for the moon and restore American supremacy in space if elected.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 20, 2012 - Russian Space Agency Roscosmos is in talks with its European and U.S. partners on the creation of manned research bases on the Moon, the agencies chief, Vladimir Popovkin, said on Thursday. W
Moscow (UPI) Jan 19, 2012 - Russia's space agency Roscosmos says it is in talks with European and U.S. partners about creating permanent manned research bases on the moon.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 18, 2012 - Twin NASA spacecraft that achieved orbit around the moon New Year's Eve and New Year's Day have new names, thanks to elementary students in Bozeman, Mont. Their winning entry, Ebb and Flow, was se
Washington (AFP) Jan 17, 2012 - A pair of unmanned NASA spacecraft that are orbiting the Moon were renamed Ebb and Flow on Tuesday by a middle school class in Montana, the US space agency announced.
