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Preparation For The Next Lunar Landing Leaps Across The Generation Gap
Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 03, 2008It was July 20, 1969 when the first human walked upon the surface of the moon. The world has changed drastically since that memorable day, but even back then the Apollo era scientists, engineers and astronauts had the right stuff. They had what it took to get to the moon. And now, nearly 40 years later, we call on them again to share their wisdom, experience and opinion as we prepare to ... more NASA Collaborates With Astronomers In Search For Moon Water 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 03, 2008In early 2009, astronomers on Earth will point telescopes at the moon looking for water -- and NASA will help them find their target. This past Friday NASA experts and professional astronomers gathered at NASA's Ames Research Center for the Lunar Crater Observing and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, Astronomer Workshop. The workshop's goal was to facilitate collaboration among experts ... more Seeing Red 
Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 29, 2008This New Horizons image of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io was taken at 13:05 Universal Time during the spacecraft's Jupiter flyby on February 28, 2007. It shows the reddish color of the deposits from the giant volcanic eruption at the volcano Tvashtar, near the top of the sunlit crescent, as well as the bluish plume itself and the orange glow of the hot lava at its source. The relatively ... more NASA shows off a moon robot 
Denver (UPI) Feb 27, 2007 The U.S. space agency is exhibiting a lunar robot rover equipped with a drill, designed to find water and oxygen-rich soil on the moon. The robot, designed to explore the moon's craters, is being demonstrated in Denver this week during the third Space Exploration Conference. The rover must operate in continual darkness in extremely cold conditions with little power, NASA said, no ... more Northrop Grumman Integrating LCROSS Instruments 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Feb 29, 2008Northrop Grumman is integrating the cameras, spectrometers and photometer comprising the nine instrument payload for the NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite onto the spacecraft. LCROSS will impact the moon to determine the presence of water ice in one of its permanently shadowed craters at the lunar South Pole. NASA Ames Research Center ... more |
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Beijing (XNA) Feb 26, 2008China plans to launch its second lunar probe, Chang'e-2, around 2009, according to a top satellite scientist. Ye Peijian, chief commander and designer of China's first moon probe satellite system, revealed the plan during an interview program on CCTV, China Central Television. However, Ye did not elaborate on the plan with more details. He said Chang'e-1, the country's first lunar ... more The X PRIZE Foundation Announces Official Contenders In Private Moon Race 
Mountain View CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2008The X PRIZE Foundation and Google have announced the first ten teams to register for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a robotic race to the Moon to win a remarkable $30 million in prizes. This international group of teams will compete to land a privately funded robotic craft on the Moon that is capable of roaming the lunar surface for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and data back to the ... more Who's Orbiting The Moon 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 21, 2008The space around Earth is a busy place, as teeming with traffic as a roundabout. More than 500 active satellites are bustling about up there right now. Some are transmitting radio, television, and telephone signals; others are gathering information about Earth's atmosphere and weather; still others are helping people navigate down here; and the rest are conducting space research. Soon the ... more Get Ready For The Total Lunar Eclipse 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 20, 2008In the late night hours of Feb. 20, 2008, a total lunar eclipse will dazzle the night sky. And this lunar eclipse may be worth staying up for, because it will be the last one until December 2010. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth lines up directly between the sun and the moon, casting a shadow over the moon's surface. The February 20, 2008 eclipse will last for nearly 3 and a half hour ... more |
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Bangalore, India (AFP) Feb 13, 2008India will announce the date of its first lunar mission by the end of this month, the head of the country's space agency said Wednesday. A report in the Times of India Wednesday said that the launch of Chandrayaan-1, originally planned for April, had been "tentatively postponed" until June or July because of technical reasons. But Indian Space Research Organisation chairman ... more Titan's Surface Organics Surpass Oil Reserves On Earth 
Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 14, 2008Saturn's orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes. The new findings from the study led by Ralph Lorenz, Cassini radar team member from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ... more Scientists Study The Plumbing Of The Enceladus Plumes 
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Feb 14, 2008Scientists on the Cassini mission have become out-of-this world "plumbers" as they try to piece together what's happening inside the "pipes" feeding the plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Enceladus is jetting out giant geysers three times the size of the moon, and now scientists are beginning to understand how the ice grains are created and how they might have formed. Knowing the process ... more NASA Recruiting Volunteers For Out Of This World Jobs 
Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Feb 08, 2008Only 12 human beings have set foot on the moon. You could be the thirteenth ... if you make the cut. NASA's current recruiting effort for a new class of astronaut candidates specifies that the International Space Station and the return to the moon are part of the agency's goals, and this class will be the first to be trained to achieve them. Interested? ... more
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