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Germany may target the moon by 2015
Berlin (UPI) Aug 13, 2009 - Germany is debating whether to launch an unmanned mission to the moon to help German companies secure expertise in the aerospace sector.
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Germany Shoots For The Moon By 2015
Berlin (AFP) Aug 12, 2009 - An unmanned German mission to the moon is plausible by the middle of the next decade, the official in charge of space flight said on Wednesday, despite the financial crisis battering the country.
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China To Finish High-Res Topographic Lunar Map By September
Beijing (XNA) Aug 10, 2009 - China will complete a 3D topographic map of the moon by the end of September, according to a chief designer with the project on Wednesday, calling the map the clearest in the world.
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Goodyear And NASA Invent Spring Tire For The Moon And Possibly Earth
Akron OH (SPX) Aug 05, 2009 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Goodyear Tire have developed an airless tire to transport large, long-range vehicles across the surface of the moon.
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Field Testing For The Moon
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 03, 2009 - When President Kennedy announced on Sept. 12, 1962, that the United States would go to the moon before the end of the decade, life and work at NASA changed in monumental ways. By then, NASA had four manned spaceflights under its belt. A trip to the moon would leverage years of spaceflight knowledge, but traveling out of low Earth orbit, past Geosynchronous orbit to the moon, would demand increased launch and crew vehicle capabilities.
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Raytheon Helps Pave Way For Man’s Next Moon Journey
El Segundo CA (SPX) Jul 29, 2009 - Sensing technology developed by Raytheon for the U.S. Navy's miniaturized radio frequency system has begun its one-year mission to determine whether the polar regions of the moon contain ice.
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Maximizing Scientific Return Of The Moon Rovers
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 28, 2009 - NASA and other national space agencies are again focused on lunar exploration, which raises the question of how to best use semi-autonomous rovers to explore the Moon's surface.
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Things You Never Knew About The First Moon Landing
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jul 24, 2009 - Forty years ago this month a mighty Saturn-5 rocket blasted off with the force of one hundred locomotives propelling two men into history! They became the first human beings to ever set foot on another world. This was the first Moon landing.
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40 Years On, Renaissance Begins For Lunar Exploration
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 23, 2009 - The 40th anniversary of the Apollo lunar landing is a time to look back and, especially, an opportunity to look forward to future space exploration, including the Moon missions now being planned by NASA and other space agencies, said Mark A. Bishop, an associate research scientist with the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute.
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Chandrayaan-1 Completes 3000 Orbits Around The Moon
Bangalore, India (SPX) Jul 22, 2009 - Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to Moon, launched on October 22, 2008 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, has completed eight months of successful operation and has made 3,000 revolutions around the Moon.
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LROC’s First Look At The Apollo Landing Sites
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jul 21, 2009 - The imaging system on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently had its first of many opportunities to photograph the Apollo landing sites. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) imaged five of the six Apollo sites with the narrow angle cameras (NACs) between July 11 and 15, within days of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission.
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Apollo 11 Moon Rocks Still Crucial 40 Years Later
St Louis MO (SPX) Jul 21, 2009 - A lunar geochemist at Washington University in St. Louis says that there are still many answers to be gleaned from the moon rocks collected by the Apollo 11 astronauts on their historic moonwalk 40 years ago July 20.
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Google adds Moon to online Earth map service
San Francisco (AFP) July 20, 2009 - Google on Monday marked the 40th anniversary of the first human footsteps on the moon by adding virtual lunar exploration to its free online Earth map and imagery service.
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US marks 40 years since man first walked on the moon
Washington (AFP) July 20, 2009 - The United States marks the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon walk Monday, with President Barack Obama meeting at the White House with the crew of the Apollo 11 mission.
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Europe cautious about moon return
Paris (AFP) July 20, 2009 - The European Space Agency (ESA), on the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing, said Monday any return to the moon had to be more than a flag-planting mission and multinational cooperation was key.
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Apollo led to cosmic shift in human condition
Paris (AFP) July 19, 2009 - One of the many legacies of the Apollo space programme was the way it caused an extraordinary, enduring -- and, for some, troubling -- change in how we perceive the Universe and our place in it.