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Moon Daily Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Moon Daily Editorial Team produces Moon Daily's coverage of lunar exploration and science. We report on Artemis, landers and the Gateway, commercial lunar payloads, and the science of lunar geology, regolith and water ice. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Moon Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Moon Capital: A Commercial Gateway To The Moon

Washington DC (SPX) Aug 30, 2010 - On 21 September 2010, the Moon Capital Competition will accept entries for the architectural design of an international and commercial lunar habitation. The prime sponsors of the competition who are putting up the prize money are: The Boston Society of Architects (American Institute of Architects) and The New England Council of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Aug 30, 2010

Caterpillar Joins Sponsors Of First Expedition

Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Aug 24, 2010 - Astrobotic Technology, a Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) spin-off company has announced that Caterpillar will be a sponsor its first robotic expedition to the lunar surface.

Aug 24, 2010

LRO Reveals Incredible Shrinking Moon

Newly discovered cliffs in the lunar crust indicate the moon shrank globally in the geologically recent past and might still be shrinking today, according to a team analyzing new images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft.

Aug 20, 2010

A Hop, Skip And A Jump On The Moon – And Beyond

Boston MA (SPX) Aug 19, 2010 - Although unmanned, wheeled rovers have explored the surfaces of the moon and Mars for decades, these vehicles have limits - they can't crawl inside craters, scale cliffs or travel long distances.

Aug 19, 2010

China’s Lunar Twins

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 19, 2010 - Before the end of 2010, China will have launched its second lunar probe. Chang'e 2 is an orbiting spacecraft that was originally built as a back-up for China's first lunar probe, Chang'e 1, which flew to the moon in 2007. The launch is widely tipped for some time in October.

Aug 19, 2010

NASA Seeks Data From Innovative Lunar Demonstrations

Washington DC (SPX) Aug 09, 2010 - NASA has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to purchase specific data resulting from industry efforts to test and verify vehicle capabilities through demonstrations of small robotic landers. The purpose is to inform the development of future human and robotic lander vehicles.

Aug 9, 2010

Mimicking The Moon’s Surface In The Basement

Los Alamos NM (SPX) Aug 09, 2010 - A team of scientists used an ion beam in a basement room at Los Alamos National Laboratory to simulate solar winds on the surface of the Moon. The table-top simulation helped confirm that the Moon is inherently dry.

Aug 9, 2010

Russia To Launch Moon Probe In 2012

Razvilka, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 05, 2010 - Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos will launch a probe bearing a neutron generator to study the moon's surface in 2012, a leading space researcher said on Tuesday.

Aug 5, 2010

Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon, to turn 80

Washington (AFP) Aug 3, 2010 - Neil Armstrong, who turns 80 on Thursday, became the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, before the eyes of hundreds of millions of television viewers worldwide, who gazed in awe.

Aug 3, 2010

NASA’s ATHLETE Warms Up For High Desert Run

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 02, 2010 - Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are currently putting their All-Terrain, Hex-Limbed, Extra-Terrestrial Explorer (ATHLETE) through a series of long-drive tests on the long, dirt roads found adjacent to JPL.

Aug 2, 2010

GRAIL Spacecraft Takes Shape

Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 29, 2010 - Engineers have conducted a fuel tank check of one of NASA's GRAIL mission spacecraft (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory), scheduled for launch in 2011.

Jul 29, 2010

Japan experts call for robot expedition to moon

Tokyo, Japan (AFP) July 29, 2010 - An expert panel advising the Japanese government called in a report approved on Thursday for the nation to send a wheeled robot to the moon in five years and to build the first lunar base by 2020.

Jul 29, 2010

Water On The Moon Is Widespread

Knoxville TN (SPX) Jul 23, 2010 - Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are once again turning what scientists thought they knew about the moon on its head.

Jul 23, 2010

Caltech Team Finds Evidence Of Water In Moon Minerals

Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 23, 2010 - That dry, dusty moon overhead? Seems it isn't quite as dry as it's long been thought to be. Although you won't find oceans, lakes, or even a shallow puddle on its surface, a team of geologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), working with colleagues at the University of Tennessee, has found structurally bound hydroxyl groups (i.e., water) in a mineral in a lunar rock returned to Earth by the Apollo program.

Jul 23, 2010

Two charged with stealing Neil Armstrong customs form

Boston, Massachusetts (AFP) July 20, 2010 - Two US men were charged Tuesday with stealing a customs document from Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, with the goal of selling the former astronaut's autograph.

Jul 20, 2010

Science Team To Study Data From China’s First Lunar Probe

Beijing, China (XNA) Jul 19, 2010 - China's space agency has set up a committee of 123 leading scientists to consider how the country might apply the vast amount of data acquired by China's first lunar probe.

Jul 19, 2010