Paris (AFP) Apr 13, 2005 - Astronomers say they have identified a place on the Moon that lies in permanent sunlight and close to regions suspected to hold water ice: in short, an ideal location for a tentative lunar colony.
Paris (ESA) Apr 13, 2005 - On 17 March the ESA Council, at its meeting in Paris, unanimously approved a cooperation agreement between ESA and the Indian Space Research Organisation for India's first moon mission - Chandrayaan-1.
Delhi, India (SPX) Apr 05, 2005 - An American geologist, selected by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) as an investigator for Chandrayaan-I, has said she is excited and honoured to be part of the historic lunar mission, which aims to unlock the mysteries of the moon.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Apr 04, 2005 - Lunar Prospector Against All Odds, by Alan Binder, Ph.D., is the highly personal and engaging story of how the Lunar Prospector orbital mapping mission was developed and carried out by the author between late 1989 and 2001.
Los Angeles CA (UPI) Mar 27, 2005 - Nearly 35 years after a near-disastrous space mission, Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell says he has long since learned to see the mission as a success -- the way it is depicted in Ron Howard's 1995 movie Apollo 13, now coming out in a 10th anniversary special-edition DVD.
Paris (ESA) Mar 22, 2005 - On 17 March the ESA Council, at its meeting in Paris, unanimously approved a cooperation agreement between ESA and the Indian Space Research Organisation for India¿s first moon mission ¿ Chandrayaan-1.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 20, 2005 - NASA has a new Vision for Space Exploration: in the decades ahead, humans will land on Mars and explore the red planet. Brief visits will lead to longer stays and, maybe one day, to colonies.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2005 - Thirty-five years after Moon-walking astronauts placed special reflectors on the lunar surface, scientists have used these devices to test Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity to unprecedented accuracy.
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 28, 2005 - India is a step ahead of China in satellite technology and can surpass Beijing in space research by tapping the talent of its huge pool of young scientists, India's space research chief said Monday.
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 28, 2005 - Japan's space agency, fresh from its first satellite launch since a 2003 failure, aims to put a manned station on the moon in 2025 and to set up a satellite disaster alert system, an official said Monday.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 24, 2005 - The European Space Agency's SMART missions - Small Missions for Advanced Research and Technology - are designed to test new spacecraft technology while visiting various places in the solar system.
Washington (UPI) Feb 24, 2005 - As the human race begins the in-situ human exploration of the solar system in the coming decades, one essential ingredient to that journey will be water - not only because it will suggest where alien life might reside, but also because future explorers will need it to survive and prosper.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 22, 2005 - The European Space Agency's SMART missions - Small Missions for Advanced Research and Technology - are designed to test new spacecraft technology while visiting various places in the solar system. SMART-1 is now at the moon, mapping the surface mineralogy. Future missions can use the technology being tested by SMART-1 to go to Mars, Venus, Mercury, comets, and the sun.
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 16, 2005 - On 10 February 2005 the ESA Science Programme Committee endorsed unanimously the proposed one-year extension of SMART-1, pushing back the mission end date from August 2005 to August 2006.
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 03, 2005 - NASA chose the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) to fly as part of the scientific payload for the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) Chandraayan-1 mission, slated for launch in 2007. The M3 is designed to create a mineral-resource map of the moon. It will be flown as part of the Chandraayan-1 mission if it is selected by ISRO in an independent competition.
Paris (ESA) Jan 27, 2005 - ESA's SMART-1 captured its first close-range images of the Moon this January, during a sequence of test lunar observations from an altitude between 1000 and 5000 kilometres above the lunar surface.
