Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 12, 2005 - Inside the lunar lander Challenger, a radio loudspeaker crackled. Houston: We've got you on television now. We have a good picture. Gene Cernan, Apollo 17 commander: Glad to see old Rover's still working.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 11, 2005 - The theme of this year's Return To The Moon conference is Reality Check and represents the fact that the time for tangible results has arrived.
by Bernard Foing - While the Earth is tilted at an angle of about 23 degrees, the moon's tilt is just over 1 degree. Because of this, the summits of some lunar crater rims are sunlit over very long periods.
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Jun 28, 2005 - Bernard Foing, Chief Scientist at the European Space Agency, is also Project Scientist for SMART-1, a spacecraft now orbiting the Moon. SMART-1 is currently mapping the lunar surface topography and mineralogy, and scientists hope this information will lead to new insights about the Moon's evolution.
Bangalore, India (SPX) Jun 28, 2005 - Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed an agreement Monday (June 27, 2005) for including European instruments on board India's first scientific mission to moon, Chandrayaan-1.
Melbourne FL (SPX) Jun 09, 2005 - Florida Tech is collaborating with British Titanium, Cambridge University and the Kennedy Space Center on a NASA-funded project to produce oxygen from the Moon's regolith (top soil covering solid rock).
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 25, 2005 - Imagine trekking in a lunar rover across miles of the Moon's rough surface. Your mission: to explore a crater with suspected deposits of ice.
Boulder CO (SPX) May 25, 2005 - People of every culture have been fascinated by the dark spots on the Moon, which seem to compose the figure of a rabbit, frogs or the face of a clown.
Washington DC (SPX) - May 20, 2005 - NASA, in collaboration with the Florida Space Research Institute (FSRI), announced Thursday a new Centennial Challenges prize competition.
Baltimore MD (SPX) May 09, 2005 - The next time you look at the Moon, pause for a moment and let this thought sink in: People have actually walked on the Moon, and right now the wheels are in motion to send people there again.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 29, 2005 - The next time you look at the Moon, pause for a moment and let this thought sink in: People have actually walked on the Moon, and right now the wheels are in motion to send people there again.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 26, 2005 - In 1972, Apollo astronaut Harrison Schmitt sniffed the air in his Lunar Module, the Challenger. [It] smells like gunpowder in here, he said. His commander Gene Cernan agreed. Oh, it does, doesn't it?
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 21, 2005 - NASA is planning to send people back to the Moon. Target date: 2015 or so. Too bad they won't be there this Sunday because, on April 24th, there's going to be a solar eclipse, and you can only see it from the Moon.
Shenyang, China (XNA) Apr 20, 2005 - Chinese scientists say they have worked out a group of secondary robots which resemble wheels of a vehicle to carry out exploration missions on the moon.
Paris (ESA) Apr 18, 2005 - ESA's SMART-1 mission to the Moon has been monitoring the illumination of lunar poles since the beginning of 2005, about two months before arriving at its final science orbit.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 15, 2005 - The first object in the night sky most of us ever saw, the Moon remains a mystery. Haunted by poets, looked upon by youngsters in love, studied intensely by astronomers for four centuries, examined by geologists for the last 50 years, walked upon by twelve humans, this is Earth's satellite.
