Washington (AFP) Aug 31, 2006 - NASA has picked a group led by US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin Corp. to build a new spacecraft that will take astronauts back to the moon, the space agency said Thursday. NASA selected on Wednesday Lockheed Martin Corp. ... as the prime contractor to design, develop, and build Orion, America's spacecraft for a new generation of explorers, NASA said in a statement.
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 30, 2006 - This high-resolution image, taken by the Advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows the young crater 'Cuvier C' on the Moon. AMIE obtained this sequence on 18 March 2006 from a distance of 591 kilometres from the surface, with a ground resolution of 53 metres per pixel.
Paris (AFP) Aug 30, 2006 - One of the most innovative missions in space exploration comes to a dramatic close on Sunday when Europe's first probe to the Moon crashes into the lunar surface in a suicide ride.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2006 - In the near vacuum of space there will be silence as a large NASA rocket smashes into one of the moon's polar regions in early 2009. There is no air to transmit sound waves where the rocket will strike, but the ground will shake. The 4,410-pound (2,000-kilogram) NASA rocket will be hurtling 1.56 miles per second (2.5 kilometers per second) towards the lunar surface.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2006 - NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has signed an agreement to collaborate with VirtueArts, Inc., and VirtuePlay, Inc., both of Los Angeles, Calif., for engineering and real-time simulation training in a variety of applications, including a dynamic learning system that allows users to virtually race lunar buggies on the moon in 3D.
Paris (ESA) Aug 21, 2006 - The D-CIXS instrument on ESA's Moon mission SMART-1 has produced the first detection from orbit of calcium on the lunar surface. By doing this, the instrument has taken a step towards answering the old question: did the Moon form from part of the Earth?
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 18, 2006 - If you are a professional or amateur astronomer and want to contribute to the final phase of the SMART-1 mission, join ESA on the impact ground observation campaign.
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 17, 2006 - Now Europe too can say it has been to the Moon. Watch the Moon up close in the early morning of 3 September (at around 07:40 Central European Summer Time, as currently estimated) and you may just see a European satellite land on its surface.
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2006 - NASA personnel continue to sift through 37-year-old records in their attempt to locate the magnetic tapes that recorded the original Apollo 11 video in 1969. The original tapes may be at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which requested their return from the National Archives in the 1970s, or at another location within the NASA archiving system. Despite the challenges of the search, NASA does not consider the tapes to be lost.
Washington (AFP) Aug 16, 2006 - NASA no longer knows the whereabouts of the original tapes of man's first landing on the moon nearly 40 years ago, an official of the US space agency said Tuesday. NASA is searching for the original tapes of the Apollo 11 spacewalk on July 21, 1969, said Ed Campion, a spokesman for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a Washington suburb.
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 15, 2006 - This high-resolution image, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows part of crater Jacobi in the southern hemisphere of the Moon. The rim of the crater is seen on the upper edge of the image.
Washington (UPI) Aug 14, 2006 - NASA says the original film depicting Neil Armstrong taking his giant leap for mankind on the moon has been lost.
Gaza City, Aug 9, 2006 - Five Palestinians were wounded Wednesday, one of them seriously, in an Israeli air strike on a site used as a traning camp by armed groups, witnesses and medical sources said.
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 07, 2006 - SMART-1, the successful first European spacecraft to the Moon, is now about to end its exploration adventure, after almost sixteen months of lunar science investigations. SMART-1 was launched on 27 September 2003, and it reached the Moon in November 2004 after a long spiralling around Earth.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 04, 2006 - The moon is Earth's closest companion in the solar system, a constant presence that, throughout history, has provided illumination on dark nights. The moon not only tugs the ocean tides, but, as proven by the countless poems that extol its luminescent beauty, the moon tugs at our hearts as well. The Apollo program turned the distant moon into the very edge of the human frontier, and if current plans hold, the moon will be our first outpost in future space exploration.
Tokyo, Japan (AFP) Aug 03, 2006 - JAXA has set a goal of constructing a manned lunar base in 2030, a space agency official said Wednesday.
