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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Washington (AFP) July 18, 2009 - Forty years after Alan Bean became the fourth man to walk on the moon, the now 77-year-old former astronaut still likes to share his memories of space flight with a broad audience -- by painting them.
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 17, 2009 - On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin became the first humans ever to set foot on the Moon. It was an event that captured the world's imagination and inspired a generation of scientists and researchers.
