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A Vision For Exploration
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 01, 2008There are many fascinating places in our solar system to explore, but space missions are dangerous and expensive. Sending robots instead of people helps reduce these drawbacks. For this kind of exploration, Professor Bernard Foing looks to the Moon, Mars and beyond, hoping to discover tantalising secrets useful to astrobiologists. Foing is the senior research coordinator at the European ... more Crafty Tricks For Finding Moon Water 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 31, 2008Bright gray, crater-pocked mountains taller than Mount McKinley. Abyssal craters that could swallow several Grand Canyons whole. Recent radar maps of the Moon's southern pole revealed a dramatic, jagged landscape that astronauts could someday call home. But unfortunately, these radar images didn't provide any new information about something that would make living at the lunar pole much easier ... more Odyssey Moon Announces Commercial Launch Services Agreement 
San Diego, CA (SPX) Mar 28, 2008Odyssey Moon has announced that it has reached a commercial launch services agreement with Celestis. The agreement provides for payload capacity aboard Odyssey Moon's lunar missions for placing memorial flight capsules and modules in lunar orbit or on the Moon. In 1999 NASA requested Celestis to assist the colleagues and loved ones of renowned astronomer Dr. Eugene Shoemaker in placing a ... more ATK And Ad Astra Rocket Company Sign Technology Development Alliance 
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 27, 2008On March 17, Alliant Techsystems and the Ad Astra Rocket Company of Houston, Texas signed and executed a Technology Development Alliance designed to strengthen the market presence of the two companies and explore future in-space propulsion systems for lunar and planetary missions. The new alliance will explore how the respective skill sets and capabilities of each company can work together ... more Cassini Tastes Organic Material At Saturn's Geyser Moon 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 27, 2008NASA's Cassini spacecraft tasted and sampled a surprising organic brew erupting in geyser-like fashion from Saturn's moon Enceladus during a close flyby on March 12. Scientists are amazed that this tiny moon is so active, "hot" and brimming with water vapor and organic chemicals. New heat maps of the surface show higher temperatures than previously known in the south polar region, with hot ... more |
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Houston TX (SPX) Mar 20, 2008NASA's Constellation Program has selected five space-related companies to receive contract awards for a 210-day study to independently evaluate NASA's in-house design concept for a lunar lander that will deliver four astronauts to the surface of the moon by 2020. The awards total approximately $1.5 million, with a maximum individual award of $350,000. The study recommendations will be used ... more Frozen Life Cubes 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 18, 2008If extraterrestrial life exists in the solar system, there is a good chance that it will be discovered as frozen remains trapped in a block of ice. Mars's ice caps are one possible location. Another is the surface ice of Jupiter's moon Europa, which scientists believe harbors an ice-capped ocean. Scientists dream about bringing ice sample from Mars or Europa back to Earth for study. A robot ... more Novel Spots Found On Jupiter 
Liege, Belgium (SPX) Mar 18, 2008Scientists have observed unexpected luminous spots on Jupiter caused by its moon Io. Besides displaying the most spectacular volcanic activity in the solar system, Io causes auroras on its mother planet that are similar to the Northern Lights on Earth. The auroral emissions linked to the volcanic moon are called the Io footprint. From previous studies, researchers had found the Io footprint ... more NASA prepares for Moonbuggy Race 
Huntsville, Ala. (UPI) Mar 13, 2008 The U.S. space agency is transforming part of its Marshall Space Flight Center into a lunar landscape for the 15th annual Great Moonbuggy Race. By the end of the month about a half-mile of cement footpaths at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration facility will be ready to test the engineering savvy and physical endurance of about 400 high school and college students in the ... more |
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Beijing (XNA) Mar 13, 2008A Chinese space expert said here on Tuesday that the Long March 5 large-thrust carrier rocket, currently under development and scheduled to be put into service in 2014, will be mainly used for the delivery of lunar rovers, large satellites and space stations. "With a maximum payload capacity up to 25 tons, the jumbo rocket is expected to be able to send lunar rovers, large satellites and ... more China's Recoverable Moon Rover Expected In 2017 
Beijing (XNA) Mar 12, 2008China will have a recoverable moon rover, which will carry back lunar soil samples, by 2017 if technical research "progresses smoothly," said the chief designer of Chang'e-1, the country's first moon probe, here Tuesday. China plans to land a probe on the moon in 2013, said Ye Peijian, chief commander and designer of probe's satellite system, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ... more NASA Ames Selected For Return To Moon Team 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 12, 2008A scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center is one of 24 researchers selected to join the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission to explore and measure geological features on the moon's surface. Scheduled for launch later this year, the mission represents NASA's first step toward returning humans to the moon. Ross Beyer, a SETI Institute employee who works at Ames, will join the Lunar R ... more Cassini Spacecraft To Dive Into Water Plume Of Saturn Moon 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2008NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make an unprecedented "in your face" flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wed., March 12. The spacecraft, orchestrating its closest approach to date, will skirt along the edges of huge Old-Faithful-like geysers erupting from giant fractures on the south pole of Enceladus. Cassini will sample scientifically valuable water-ice, dust and gas in the plume. The ... more
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