Washington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2006 - If winter Olympic Games were held on the moon, where would they be? The lunar Alps, of course. It's only a matter of time. One day, winter Olympics will be held on the moon.
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2006 - This image, taken by the Advanced Moon Imaging Experiment on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, illustrates a special pointing mode, the so-called target-tracking mode.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 01, 2006 - Moondust. I wish I could send you some, says Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan. Just a thimbleful scooped fresh off the lunar surface. It's amazing stuff.
Esrange, Sweden (SPX) January 31, 2006 - The European Moon probe SMART-1, which was developed by SSC for ESA, has been orbiting the Moon since November 2004. Its main mission, to qualify an electric propulsion system, is completed, and the probe is now making observations of the lunar surface using its scientific instruments onboard.
Moscow (AFP) Jan 25, 2006 - Russia is planning to mine a rare fuel on the moon by 2020 with a permanent base and a heavy-cargo transport link, a Russian space official said Wednesday.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 18, 2006 - Now this is a ski report: Clear skies, no wind, sweet slopes and deep powder--not expected to melt for at least five billion years. Grab your poles and pack your bags.
Oak Lawn (UPI) Jan 17, 2006 - Thomas Shanahan Jr., whose name is engraved on a plaque on the moon, died Jan. 12 at Oak Lawn, Ill., near Chicago, from lung cancer at the age of 67.
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 16, 2006 - NASA's Constellation Program has released a broad agency announcement for study proposals to evaluate human landing craft concepts for exploring the moon. The Altair spacecraft will deliver four astronauts to the lunar surface late in the next decade. NASA plans to establish an outpost on the moon through a sustainable and affordable series of lunar missions beginning no later than 2020.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 5, 2006 - The moon is utterly familiar. We see it all the time, in the blue sky during the day, among the stars and planets at night. Every child knows the outlines of the moon's lava seas: they trace the Man in the Moon or, sometimes, a Rabbit.
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 28, 2005 - ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft has been surveying the Moon's surface in visible and near-infrared light using a new technique, never before tried in lunar orbit.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 28, 2005 - December 23, 2005: NASA scientists have observed an explosion on the moon. The blast, equal in energy to about 70 kg of TNT, occurred near the edge of Mare Imbrium (the Sea of Rains) on Nov. 7, 2005, when a 12-centimeter-wide meteoroid slammed into the ground traveling 27 km/s.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 12, 2005 - Every lunar morning, when the sun first peeks over the dusty soil of the moon after two weeks of frigid lunar night, a strange storm stirs the surface.
Beijing (AFP) Dec 07, 2005 - A Chinese company's efforts at selling plots of land on the moon was a beautiful idea but fraudulent and illegal, a government watchdog has ruled.
Mumbai, India (SPX) Dec 02, 2005 - India is awaiting clearance from the Bush administration for finalising an American payload on top of India's first ever unmanned moon mission, Chandrayan, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G Madhavan Nair said on Friday.
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Dec 02, 2005 - Despite Russia's 30-fold disadvantage in financing its space effort as compared with America's, it has greater chances of being the first in reaching the Moon this time, or perhaps the Mars.
Honolulu HI (SPX) Dec 01, 2005 - Many critics say that Mike Griffin's planned Moon program is too much like Apollo to excite anyone. The real problem is that it is not enough like Apollo to be affordable.
