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Our First Lunar Program: What Did We Get From Apollo
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2007American 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 "A ... more Cassini Pinpoints Hot Sources Of Jets On Enceladus 
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 19, 2007A recent analysis of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides conclusive evidence that the jets of fine, icy particles spraying from Saturn's moon Enceladus originate from the hottest spots on the moon's "tiger stripe" fractures that straddle the moon's south polar region. Members of Cassini's imaging team used two years' worth of pictures of the geologically active moon to locate the sour ... more Greeting A Living Legend: NASA's Cosentino Meets Childhood Hero Buzz Aldrin 
Edwards CA (SPX) Oct 18, 2007Nine-year-old Gary Cosentino watched the television with awe on July 20, 1969, as two men exited an odd-looking craft called the Eagle lunar module, climbed down a ladder and set foot on the moon. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 mission, it was an event that went on to inspire Cosentino, like many others, ... more China moon probe to launch this month 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 16, 2007China will launch its first lunar probe at the end of this month with preparations already in their final stages, a senior official said Tuesday. Pre-launch tests on the Chang'e I rocket and orbiter were nearly complete and they have been transported to the launch site, the official told state news agency Xinhua. China is also planning to land a human on the moon and make a series of rob ... more China To Launch First Moon Orbiter In Late October 
Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 17, 2007A senior Chinese official said here Tuesday that researchers and technicians are making final preparations for the launch of the country's first moon orbiter, Chang'e I, at the end of October. Zhang Qingwei, minister in charge of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND), who is attending the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), sa ... more |
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Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 15, 2007Major breakthroughs are expected by 2010 in the country's ambitious space programs - from manned flights to the lunar probe - a senior space administrator said Thursday. Scientists are working toward astronaut space walks, and spacecraft rendezvous and docking procedures by the end of the decade, said Sun Laiyan, chief of the China National Space Administration. The deep space exploration progra ... more Cassini Mission To Saturn Celebrates 10 Years Since Launch 
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 12, 2007Celebrating the 10th anniversary of its launch from Cape Canaveral, the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn is once again at the center of scientific attention. Its latest discoveries about the ringed planet are a leading topic of conversation among the nearly 1,500 scientists gathered this week at a major astronomy conference in Orlando, Fla. Cassini rode into space Oct. 15, 1997, atop a U. ... more Drizzly Mornings On Xanadu 
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 12, 2007Noted for its bizarre hydrocarbon lakes and frozen methane clouds, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, also appears to have widespread drizzles of methane, according to a team of astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley. New near-infrared images from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii show for the first time a nearly global cloud cover at hi ... more Cassini Pinpoints Hot Sources Of Jets On Enceladus 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2007A recent analysis of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides conclusive evidence that the jets of fine, icy particles spraying from Saturn's moon Enceladus originate from the hottest spots on the moon's "tiger stripe" fractures that straddle the moon's south polar region. Members of Cassini's imaging team used two years' worth of pictures of the geologically active moon to locate the sour ... more |
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Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 09, 2007The appearance of two-toned Iapetus has been deeply mystifying ever since the moon was first discovered by Jean-Dominique Cassini in the late seventeenth century. Now, high-resolution images of Iapetus recently acquired by the spacecraft named after the Italian/French astronomer during its low pass over the moon last month have uncovered telling details on the moon's surface that may well yield ... more Japan's lunar probe enters orbit as space race heats up 
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 5, 2007Japan said Friday it had successfully put its first lunar probe into the moon's orbit, stealing a march over China and India as an Asian space race heats up. The Kaguya probe, named after a fairytale princess, is on the most extensive mission to investigate the moon since the US Apollo human spaceflight programme in the 1960s and 1970s, according to Japan's space agency. After it blasted ... more Goddard Lunar Science On A Roll 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 05, 2007Pack your bags because Goddard's "suitcase science" is taking off. Coming on the heels of two Lunar Sortie Science Opportunities (LSSO) awards for Goddard are two more, this time in the field of astrophysics. As before, the awards are funded by NASA Headquarters for studies that could result in simple, automated "suitcase science" instrument packages deployed on the lunar surface by astronauts. ... more Suntech Targets 100MW Of Sales To The US In 2008 Due To Robust Demand 
Long Beach CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2007Suntech Power Holdings welcomed over 200 customers, partners and industry colleagues to a celebration of Moon Festival Night on Tuesday, September 25 at the Solar Power 2007 Conference and Expo in Long Beach, California which is North America's largest solar energy event. The Moon Festival, also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, is a popular Chinese celebration of abundance and togetherness, fir ... more
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