Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2009 - This winter the television production team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. shrank the moon down to a six-foot globe and put it on display in their Visitor Center. They've made a new, fully spherical short film called Return to the Moon. Designed expressly for the Science On a Sphere platform, it opens in science museums and elsewhere around the country on February 27.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 23, 2009 - NASA today begins testing elements of a power system that is a potential candidate to provide the energy needed to support a human outpost on the moon.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 19, 2009 - NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, is en route from Northrop Grumman's facility in Redondo Beach, Calif., to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for a spring launch.
Washington (AFP) Feb 12, 2009 - A new detailed map of the Moon released Thursday shows the Earth's satellite holds very little water and reveals never-before seen craters at the poles, an international research team said.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 12, 2009 - NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft was loaded on a truck Wednesday to begin its two-day journey to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launch is targeted for April 24.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 09, 2009 - Astronomers will use the powerful University of Arizona/Smithsonian MMT Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Ariz., to search for lunar water ice when NASA fires a 2-ton rocket into a polar crater on the moon later this year.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 03, 2009 - NASA has selected four teams to observe the impact of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, with the lunar surface during the mission's search for water ice on the moon.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 29, 2009 - NASA's Lunar Science Institute selected a proposal to investigate the sun's influence on the moon submitted by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The basic science research supports NASA's human exploration of the moon.
Columbia MD (SPX) Jan 29, 2009 - The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is proud to announce the selection for funding of four proposals for scientific activities to be carried out under the LCROSS Observation Campaign. The Observation Campaign is part of the NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) project which is designed to verify the presence or absence of water ice on the Moon.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2009 - In orbit around the moon, the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft is making new discoveries about the chemical composition of our cosmic neighbor. This information will teach us more about the current lunar environment, and also help us better understand the formation of the moon from an asteroid collision with Earth 4.5 billion years ago.
West Palm Beach FL (SPX) Jan 27, 2009 - Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne's Common Extensible Cryogenic Engine (CECE) has successfully demonstrated critical capabilities required for NASA's Altair lunar lander.
London UK (SPX) Jan 24, 2009 - The C1XS X-ray camera, jointly developed by the UK's STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has successfully detected its first X-ray signature from the Moon. This is the first step in its mission to reveal the origin and evolution of our Moon by mapping its surface composition.
Bangalore, India (PTI) Jan 23, 2009 - Hundred days after it was launched from Sriharikota on October 22, 60 scientists, including about 50 from the US and Europe, will conduct Chandrayaan-1's first high-level review on January 29.
Chennai, India (SPX) Jan 21, 2009 - Following the footsteps of former President and scientist A P J Abdul Kalam, Mayilsami Annadurai, director of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), on Sunday interacted with school students on various aspects of space science, importance of space programmes and ambitions.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 20, 2009 - Like 50 years ago, the Moon continues to attract the world's leading space agencies. In 2009, an impatient NASA will move to reinstate its Saturn V moon-rocket launch facility in order to repeat the triumphant July 1969 lunar landing.
Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 19, 2009 - Using a NASA radar flying aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists are getting their first look inside the moon's coldest, darkest craters.
