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Northrop Grumman Completes LCROSS Thermal Vacuum Testing
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Jun 25, 2008Northrop Grumman has successfully completed one of the most critical spacecraft environmental tests on NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) two months ahead of schedule. LCROSS will be launched later this year on a mission to impact the moon in the search for water ice and water-bearing compounds in lunar craters. Thermal vacuum testing helps determine a ... more Moon-Bound NASA Spacecraft Passes Major Preflight Tests 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 25, 2008Satellite Engineering teams are conducting final checkouts of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, that will take a significant step forward in the search for water on the moon. The mission's main objective is to confirm the presence or absence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater near a lunar polar region. A major milestone, thermal vacuum testing ... more NASA Study Provides Next Step To Establishing Lunar Outpost 
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 25, 2008NASA engineers and scientists completed a milestone review June 20 that will help determine the systems needed to return humans to the moon and establish a lunar outpost. The three-day Lunar Capability Concept Review capped a nine-month study led by the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington that incorporated science and exploration objectives earlier ... more Apollo Relic Reveals Its Secrets 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 24, 2008Imagine landing on the Moon, climbing down the ladder of your spacecraft, and looking around the harsh lunar landscape-to see another, older spacecraft standing only 200 yards away. That's exactly what happened in November 1969, when astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean stepped out of the Apollo 12 lunar module. There, within walking distance on the edge of a small crater, stood Surveyor 3 ... more Ocean On Enceladus May Be Short-Lived 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2008The tide may be changing for the ocean suspected under the icy shell of Enceladus. Recent research has shown that this small moon of Saturn does not produce enough heat in its present configuration to keep water from freezing down to its core. "There is no possible combination of parameters that allow for a thermally stable ocean," said James Roberts of ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jun 16, 2008Conditions on the moon will be harsher, but prototype NASA robotic vehicles braved sand storms and unprecedented temperature swings this month on sand dunes near Moses Lake, Wash., to prepare for future lunar expeditions. Teams from seven NASA centers and several universities conducted the tests from June 2-13. "The goal was to gain hands-on experience with specific technical challenges a ... more NASA Awards Contract For Lunar Constellation Spacesuit 
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 13, 2008NASA has awarded a contract to Oceaneering International, for the design, development and production of a new spacesuit system. The spacesuit will protect astronauts during Constellation Program voyages to the International Space Station and, by 2020, the surface of the moon. The subcontractors to Oceaneering are Air-Lock Inc. of Milford, Conn., David Clark Co. of Worcester, Mass., Cimarro ... more Scientists Pioneer Method For Making Giant Lunar Telescopes 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 09, 2008Scientists working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., have concocted an innovative recipe for giant telescope mirrors on the Moon. To make a mirror that dwarfs anything on Earth, just take a little bit of carbon, throw in some epoxy, and add lots of lunar dust. "We could make huge telescopes on the moon relatively easily, and avoid the large expense of transporting ... more NASA Seeks Proposals For Lunar Science Research 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 09, 2008NASA is looking for the right stuff to further scientific knowledge about the moon. NASA's Science Mission Directorate, in cooperation with the agency's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, recently issued a Cooperative Agreement Notice seeking research projects for the NASA Lunar Science Institute. The institute is located at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. ... more |
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Washington (UPI) May 29, 2008 The U.S. space agency said it's seeking ideas for its lunar surface systems concept to help it develop plans for a return to the moon by 2020. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it will hold a June 6 discussion at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington and is inviting interested institutions, industry and academia to attend and submit proposals. ... more India To Launch First Lunar By Year End 
Kolkata (IANS) May 28, 2008The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to launch its first unmanned moon mission, Chandrayan-I, between October and December, a top official said yesterday in Kolkata. "We are hopeful of launching the spacecraft in the third quarter of 2008-09. The mission would be targeted to capture images of the lunar surface," ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair said. "The objectives of t ... more DLR Scientists Produce An Atlas Of Saturn's Moon Dione 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) May 29, 2008Like the cartographers of old, scientists working with images from the Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's icy airless moons have carefully crafted detailed maps that one day may guide future explorers across the surfaces of these remote bodies. A team of DLR scientists alongside colleagues from the Freie Universit�t Berlin has produced an atlas of Dione, a moon of Saturn. In charting the fract ... more The Lunar GRAIL 
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 27, 2008Meet MIT professor of physics Maria Zuber. She's dynamic, intelligent, intense, and she's on a quest for the Grail. No, not that Grail. Zuber is the principal investigator of the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory - "GRAIL" for short. It's a new NASA mission slated for launch in 2011 that will probe the moon's quirky gravity field. Data from GRAIL will help scientists understand forc ... more
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