Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 14, 2009 - A team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has been selected by NASA to be a founding member of the agency's new Lunar Science Institute. The new Center for Lunar Origin and Evolution (CLOE) will help build fundamental knowledge of the history of the Moon and, by inference, the Earth and the rest of the Solar System.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 13, 2009 - If you listen closely, you might hear a NASA project manager singing this song. Lately, Marshall Space Flight Center's Carole McLemore has been working at the end of a sledge hammer opposite a big pile of rocks, so she has good reason to sing the song Tennessee Ernie Ford made famous.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2009 - On Hawai'i's Mauna Kea volcano, which rises over 13,000 feet above sea level, there is a mid-level base facility where scientists can pretend they are on the moon. Hawai'i's volcanic terrain, soil and remote environment provide an ideal environment for testing instruments and equipment that someday may be used by astronauts at a lunar base.
Moffett Field, CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2009 - NASA has selected seven academic and research teams as initial members of the agency's Lunar Science Institute. The institute supports scientific research to supplement and extend existing NASA lunar science programs in coordination with U.S. space exploration policy.
Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 12, 2009 - The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded two grants totaling $11 million today from NASA's Lunar Science Institute to probe the cosmos from observatories on the moon and to conduct science and safety investigations on the dusty lunar surface and its atmosphere.
Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 12, 2009 - The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded a $6 million grant from NASA to build a high-tech lunar dust detector for a 2011 mission to orbit the moon and conduct science investigations of the dusty lunar surface and its atmosphere.
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Jan 09, 2009 - Dwellings in colonies on the moon one day may be built with new, highly durable bricks developed by students from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech.
Shillong, India (SPX) Jan 05, 2009 - Hundreds of children in Shillong watched with great enthusiasm and expectations as a film took them on a journey to the making of Chandrayaan-I here at the ongoing 96th Indian Science Congress, ISC -2009. The film was brought to them by none other than Prof. M.G.K. Menon, an emminent scientist and the Chancellor of North Eastern Hill University, NEHU. The show and the interaction there after was part of the North Eastern Region Awareness programme for School Children.
Shillong, India (SPX) Jan 05, 2009 - India is planning to hoist the tricolour on the moon by 2020, a space agency official said here Sunday, adding that the country's first manned flight into space was also on cards by 2015.
Tokyo (UPI) Jan 2, 2009 - A deep lava tube discovered on the moon could shield human colonists from harsh temperatures and meteorites, Japanese scientists said.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 30, 2008 - Scattered loosely around the beltline of Earth's nearest neighbor are six silent sentinels, testaments to America's first moon program. Standing all of 10 feet high and 30 feet wide (from footpad to footpad), each of these lunar module descent stages is more than a historical artifact that powered two Apollo astronauts to a safe landing on the moon's surface. They are unearthly reminders of the challenges that future moon crews will encounter on their final approach to the unknown.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 29, 2008 - NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing, which simulates the extreme hot, cold and airless conditions of space LRO will experience after launch. This milestone concludes the orbiter's environmental test program at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Bangalore, India (SPX) Dec 29, 2008 - The moon mineralogy mapper (M3), a scientific instrument of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) onboard India's first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1, found iron-bearing minerals on the lunar surface, the US space agency said Thursday.
El Segundo CA (SPX) Dec 23, 2008 - Raytheon has received confirmation from NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization that a water-detecting sensor system on the Chandrayaan-1 lunar-orbiting spacecraft has been activated and is fully functional.
Durham, UK (SPX) Dec 23, 2008 - Scientists have discovered where they believe would be the best place to find ice on the moon. Astrophysicists, led by an expert at Durham University, say if frozen water exists then it is most likely to be found near to the moon's poles in craters that are permanently shaded from the sun.
Washington (UPI) Dec 17, 2008 - U.S. space agency officials have released a draft request for design support for the Altair lunar lander vehicle, part of NASA's Constellation Program.
