Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 30, 2012 - Russia is planning to send a manned mission to the moon by 2030, Russian space agency Roscosmos said on its website on Friday. According to the Russian space strategy published on the Roscosmo
Paris (SPX) Apr 30, 2012 - The race for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE is creating science opportunities for European lunar researchers. Four teams competing for the competition presented their plans at the European Lun
Pittsburgh, PA (SPX) Apr 30, 2012 - Astrobotic Technology Inc. has announced a NASA contract to determine whether its polar rover can deploy an ice-prospecting payload to the Moon. The ice could yield water, oxygen, methane and rocket
Mountain View CA (SPX) Apr 27, 2012 - Moon Express has announced that it has successfully delivered a mission design package to NASA under its Innovative Lunar Demonstration Data (ILDD) Program, providing NASA continuing data on the dev
Greenbelt, MD (SPX) Apr 25, 2012 - Imagine yourself in orbit, your spacecraft flying backward with its small window facing down toward the surface of the moon. You peer out, scouring the ash-colored contours of the cratered landscape
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 20, 2012 - America's space agency has crowned its vehicular engineering victors at the close of the 19th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. The team from P
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Apr 18, 2012 - Luna-Glob, a Moon-exploration program, will be a priority for the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) for the next 10 years, academician Lev Zeleny, director of the Space Research Institute of
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 12, 2012 - Russia's Luna-Glob moon mission will see its first moon landing in 2015, a year later than originally planned, the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences said Tuesday. We
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 09, 2012 - Russia plans to send two lunar rovers to Moon after 2020 and a landing station after 2022 as the first steps to form the future manned lunar base there, the country's Academy of Sciences said in its
Moscow (UPI) Apr 7, 2012 - Russian scientists said Saturday they plan to put two lunar rovers on the moon by 2020 and a landing station after 2022.
Manoa HI (SPX) Apr 04, 2012 - Earth usually has more than one moon, according to a team of astronomers from the University of Helsinki, the Paris Observatory and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Our 2,000-mile-diameter M
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 29, 2012 - The act of two or more aircraft flying together in a disciplined, synchronized manner is one of the cornerstones of military aviation, as well as just about any organized air show. But as amaz
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 26, 2012 - One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera. Fourth grade students from the Emily Dickinson Element
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2012 - Two four-camera color video systems supplied by Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation to NASA's dual-spacecraft Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) project have been turned on and are genera
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
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
