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If We Had No Moon
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2007The 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 ... more I Want To Be A Space Millionaire 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2007I 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, 2007What 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, 2007All 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, 2007China'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 |
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Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 25, 2007A narrow belt harboring moonlets as large as football stadiums discovered in Saturn's outermost ring probably resulted when a larger moon was shattered by a wayward asteroid or comet eons ago, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder study. Images taken by a camera onboard the NASA Cassini spacecraft revealed a series of eight propeller-shaped "wakes" in a thin belt of the outermost "A" ... more China Counting Down To Launch Of Lunar Probe 
Xichang, Sichuan (XNA) Oct 24, 2007China 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, 2007Goddard'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, 2007China 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 |
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2007A lucky nine graduate students, ranging from industry participants to foreign nationals, spent the evening presenting their concepts and projects for some of the parts needed to land objects and colonize with man the moon above. I say lucky in that the audience contained some great space minds who were wry with commentary. The Space Concepts Studio: Space Exploration Architectures event was ti ... more Japanese lunar probe finishes critical phase 
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 9, 2007Japan'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, 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
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