Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 09, 2009 - NASA has made a series of critical strides toward the development of new nuclear reactors the size of a trash can that could power a human outpost on the moon or Mars.
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 09, 2009 - Four months after the success of Apollo 11, NASA launched Apollo 12 in November 1969. Almost exactly 40 years later, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen the landing site.
Panaji, India (AFP) Sept 2, 2009 - India's first lunar mission has captured images of the landing site of the Apollo 15 craft, debunking theories that the US mission was a hoax, the country's state-run space agency said Wednesday.
New Delhi, India (XNA) Sep 02, 2009 - Less than a year after its launch, India's first unmanned lunar mission, Chandrayan I, knocked off the country's endeavor to assert its power in space, after it lost radio contact with the mission control following a technical glitch believed to have been caused by a burst of sun spot activity.
Panaji, India (AFP) Aug 30, 2009 - The head of India's state-run space agency on Sunday hailed the country's first moon mission a success, despite losing contact with the spacecraft.
Bangalore, India (AFP) Aug 29, 2009 - India's first moon mission, launched amid much fanfare last year, came to an abrupt end Saturday after controllers lost contact with the country's lunar craft, the national space agency said.
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 29, 2009 - India has lost contact with its first mooncraft, an unmanned satellite launched amid much fanfare last October, the national space agency said Saturday.
Sydeny, Australia (SPX) Aug 24, 2009 - Whoever does it, and whenever it happens, spacecraft from Earth will be touching down on the Moon in the near future. Several nations have already announced plans for robot landers, and more could be announced in the years ahead.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 20, 2009 - For decades, microsatellites have been a boon to spaceflight. A small satellite can be built and launched fairly cheaply, sometimes hitching a ride for free aboard a large satellite launch. So far, microsatellites have not ventured very far into space. Could one go all the way to the Moon?
White Sands NM (SPX) Aug 20, 2009 - Anyone who's vacationed in the mountains or lived on a farm knows that it's hard to get good internet access or a strong cell phone signal in a remote area. Communicating across great distances has always been a challenge. So when NASA engineers designed the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), they knew it would need an extraordinary communications system.
New Delhi, India (RIA Novosti) Aug 18, 2009 - India and Russia have finished the design of a second unmanned lunar orbiter to be sent to the Moon in 2011-2012, the Indian Express newspaper said on Monday.
Beijing, China (China Daily) Aug 17, 2009 - Ouyang Ziyuan, academician at China Academy of Sciences and chief scientist of China's moon exploration project, talked with China Daily's Ma Chao about Chang'e 1, the first spacecraft sent by China to the lunar orbit as well as the future of China's exploration of the moon.
Mumbai, India (SPX) Aug 14, 2009 - India plans to power some parts of the Chandrayaan II--its next unmanned mission to the moon- with nuclear energy and the feasibility studies are being carried out by Indian Space Research Organisation and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 13, 2009 - In December 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first humans to orbit the Moon. Going further than any explorers before them, they gazed at the barren, cratered landscape beneath them, saw the Moon's far side with their own eyes, and took some history-making photographs of the Earth rising above the lunar horizon.
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.
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.
