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If We Had No Moon
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2007
The Earth has a large moon, making it unique in the inner solar system. Mercury and Venus have no moons, and Mars has only two small asteroid-sized objects orbiting it. In this essay, the father of the SMART-1 lunar mission, Bernard Foing of the European Space Agency, looks at the effect the Moon has had on the Earth, and explores how different our world would be if we had no planetary companion ... read more
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    I Want To Be A Space Millionaire
    Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2007
    I am high over the skies of New Mexico wondering what portion of the $2 million dollar combined Northrop Gruman Lunar Lander and NASA Centennial challenge monies is being awarded right this minute on the ground directly below me as I fly overhead. On Friday at the X-prize CEO Summit luncheon event, John Carmack, co-founder of id Software, the company who brought the world, the game "Doom" and ... more

    China Eyes The Moon
    Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 29, 2007
    What is most appealing about Oriental martial arts is the precise manner in which a set mission is accomplished, with an almost total lack of publicity. On October 4, with Russia and the U.S. apparently unable to do more than talk about flights to the Moon, China, strictly on schedule, launched a Long March 3A rocket carrying the satellite Chang-e 1 on a mission to map the Moon's surface. The sp ... more

    China Moon Mission Chang'e-1 In Good Condition
    Beijing (XNA) Oct 28, 2007
    All the systems of China's lunar probe Chang'e-1 are in good conditions with the high energy solar particle detector and the low energy ion detector functioning properly on Saturday, according to the moon probe team. The Chang'e-1, China's first moon orbiter, is currently moving on a 24-hour orbit with an apogee of 70,000 kilometers after it entered the orbit following its second orbital t ... more

    China's Lunar Orbiter, The Story Behind "Moon Lady" Chang'e
    Xichang, China (XNA) Oct 25, 2007
    China's first moon orbiter which is likely to be launched at around 6:00 p.m. Wednesday from a southwest launch center, has been named after "moon lady" Chang'e, a mythical Chinese goddess who flew to the moon. Chang'e and her husband Hou Yi, an outstanding archer, are the subjects of one of the most popular of Chinese mythological legends. According to one version of the story, Chang'e was the ... more

    NASA Offers 2 Million Dollar Lunar Lander Competition Prize
    Washington DC (SPX) Oct 25, 2007
    During the X PRIZE Cup Oct. 27-28, NASA's Centennial Challenges Program will offer prizes totaling $2 million if competing teams successfully meet the requirements of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. The challenge will take place at Holloman Air Force Base, in Alamogordo, N.M. The purpose of the lunar lander challenge is to accelerate technology development leading to a commer ... more

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    China Counting Down To Launch Of Lunar Probe
    Xichang, Sichuan (XNA) Oct 24, 2007
    China is busy preparing for the launch of its first moon orbiter which is likely to take place on Wednesday evening. The rocket is now on the launch pad and all staff are in position at the site. Chinaview.cn will live telecast the launch of the orbiter. The preparations for the launch of the circumlunar satellite named Chang'e I are almost complete, according to a spokesman from the Xichang Sat ... more

    Goddard Instrument Makes Cover Of Science
    Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 24, 2007
    Goddard's LEISA instrument has become a first-rate photographer, contributing to this spectacular photo of Jupiter, which appeared on the cover of the October 12 issue of the journal Science. It is a montage of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, taken by the New Horizons spacecraft as it sped past Jupiter on its way to Pluto. The Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA) instrument on Ne ... more

    China Likely To Launch First Moon Orbiter At 6pm On Oct 24th
    Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 23, 2007
    China is planning to launch its first moon orbiter at around 6 p.m. on October 24 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province. "The satellite will be launched between October 24 and 26 and our first choice is around 6 p.m. on October 24," a spokesman for the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said. The circumlunar satellite, which has been named Chang'e I after the legen ... more

    Japan's Lunar Explorer Enters Observation Orbit
    Tokyo (XNA) Oct 22, 2007
    Japan's first lunar probe satellite had been successfully put into observation orbit around the moon, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said Friday. According to JAXA's press release issued earlier in the day, the Selenological and Engineering Explorer had finished its task of reducing the maximum distance to the moon and was circling around the moon in an almost rounded orbit. The s ... more

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    Japanese lunar probe finishes critical phase
    Tokyo (AFP) Oct 9, 2007
    Japan's first lunar probe, launched more than a month ago, successfully finished its initial critical phase, the space agency said Sunday. "Both the Kaguya main satellite and its two baby satellites are in good health," the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said in a statement. The Kaguya probe, named after a fairytale princess, released two baby satellites after being launched f ... more

    Greeting A Living Legend: NASA's Cosentino Meets Childhood Hero Buzz Aldrin
    Edwards CA (SPX) Oct 18, 2007
    Nine-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, 2007
    China 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, 2007
    A 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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