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Moon Daily Editorial Team

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The Moon Daily Editorial Team produces Moon Daily's coverage of lunar exploration and science. We report on Artemis, landers and the Gateway, commercial lunar payloads, and the science of lunar geology, regolith and water ice. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Moon Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Legacy Reports

NASA To Establish Nationwide Lunar Science Institute

Washingtion DC (SPX) Oct 31, 2007 - NASA has announced its intent to establish a new lunar science institute. This effort, with dispersed teams across the nation, will help lead the agency's research activities for future lunar science missions related to NASA's exploration goals. Named the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI), the effort will be managed from NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Ames currently manages a similar distributed NASA Astrobiology Institute.

Oct 31, 2007
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If We Had No Moon

Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2007 - The Earth has a large moon, making it unique in the inner solar system. Mercury and Venus have no moons, and Mars has only two small asteroid-sized objects orbiting it. In this essay, the father of the SMART-1 lunar mission, Bernard Foing of the European Space Agency, looks at the effect the Moon has had on the Earth, and explores how different our world would be if we had no planetary companion. Would life have evolved differently, or even appeared on Earth without the Moon? An essay by Bernard Foing

Oct 30, 2007
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China Eyes The Moon

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 29, 2007 - What is most appealing about Oriental martial arts is the precise manner in which a set mission is accomplished, with an almost total lack of publicity. On October 4, with Russia and the U.S. apparently unable to do more than talk about flights to the Moon, China, strictly on schedule, launched a Long March 3A rocket carrying the satellite Chang-e 1 on a mission to map the Moon's surface. The spacecraft, with an estimated lifespan of one year, is expected to enter lunar orbit on November 5.

Oct 29, 2007
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China’s Lunar Orbiter, The Story Behind Moon Lady Chang’e

Xichang, China (XNA) Oct 25, 2007 - China's first moon orbiter which is likely to be launched at around 6:00 p.m. Wednesday from a southwest launch center, has been named after moon lady Chang'e, a mythical Chinese goddess who flew to the moon. Chang'e and her husband Hou Yi, an outstanding archer, are the subjects of one of the most popular of Chinese mythological legends. According to one version of the story, Chang'e was the beautiful wife of Hou Yi, a hero who shot down nine suns scorching the earth. At that time, there were ten suns that took turns to circle the earth one every 10 days, but one day all ten suns emerged together, causing immense damage on earth.

Oct 25, 2007
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China Counting Down To Launch Of Lunar Probe

Xichang, Sichuan (XNA) Oct 24, 2007 - China is busy preparing for the launch of its first moon orbiter which is likely to take place on Wednesday evening. The rocket is now on the launch pad and all staff are in position at the site. Chinaview.cn will live telecast the launch of the orbiter. The preparations for the launch of the circumlunar satellite named Chang'e I are almost complete, according to a spokesman from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

Oct 24, 2007
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China Likely To Launch First Moon Orbiter At 6pm On Oct 24th

Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 23, 2007 - China is planning to launch its first moon orbiter at around 6 p.m. on October 24 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province. The satellite will be launched between October 24 and 26 and our first choice is around 6 p.m. on October 24, a spokesman for the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said. The circumlunar satellite, which has been named Chang'e I after the legendary Chinese goddess who, according to legend, flew to the moon, and the carrier Long March 3A have passed all pre-launch tests and have been transported to the launch site.

Oct 23, 2007
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Japan’s Lunar Explorer Enters Observation Orbit

Tokyo (XNA) Oct 22, 2007 - Japan's first lunar probe satellite had been successfully put into observation orbit around the moon, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said Friday. According to JAXA's press release issued earlier in the day, the Selenological and Engineering Explorer had finished its task of reducing the maximum distance to the moon and was circling around the moon in an almost rounded orbit. The satellite was currently orbiting in a track of 80 to 123 kilometers around the surface of the moon, the press release said.

Oct 22, 2007
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USC Concept Synthesis Studio Colonizes The Moon With Bugs

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2007 - A lucky nine graduate students, ranging from industry participants to foreign nationals, spent the evening presenting their concepts and projects for some of the parts needed to land objects and colonize with man the moon above. I say lucky in that the audience contained some great space minds who were wry with commentary. The Space Concepts Studio: Space Exploration Architectures event was time well spent by all participants and I think left many thinking of tangential ideas to dream big with enthusiasm for space architecture.

Oct 19, 2007
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Our First Lunar Program: What Did We Get From Apollo

Washington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2007 - American plans now call for a return of humans to the Moon by around 2020. What can we hope to gain from such a program? It will be helpful to look back at our first lunar program, Apollo, and ask what we got from it, beside some 850 pounds of rock and soil - fascinating to geologists, but perhaps not to all taxpayers. I will try to summarize highlights of the payoff from Apollo. What was the Apollo Program? There was much more to it than Neil Armstrong's one small step, and even more than the following five lunar landings - any one of which would have been a gigantic accomplishment.

Oct 19, 2007
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Lunar Outpost Plans Taking Shape

Houston TX (SPX) Oct 02, 2007 - NASA's blueprints for an outpost on the moon are shaping up. The agency's Lunar Architecture Team has been hard at work, looking at concepts for habitation, rovers, and space suits. NASA will return astronauts to the moon by 2020, using the Ares and Orion spacecraft already under development. Astronauts will set up a lunar outpost - possibly near a south pole site called Shackleton Crater - where they'll conduct scientific research, as well as test technologies and techniques for possible exploration of Mars and other destinations.

Oct 2, 2007
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A New Lunar Impact Observatory

Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 02, 2007 - NASA scientists are proving that you can go home again - if you bring a telescope with you. Home is north Georgia's Walker County, where astronomers Bill Cooke and Rob Suggs have just set up a research-grade observatory for their old school system. Years ago, they won't say how many, Cooke and Suggs attended the same high school in Walker County and after school they volunteered at the Walker County Science and Technology Center. The center's telescopes fueled their fire for astronomy. They learned to operate the instruments, find their way around the night sky, and they took their first pictures of the Moon.

Oct 2, 2007