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Building A New Rocket For The Nation
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 17, 2008The Ares I rocket, America's next flagship in space, is now in development by NASA and its industry partners, and soon will carry human explorers and new missions of discovery to the moon and beyond. And thousands of American workers in 32 states and Puerto Rico are helping make it happen. Planning and building the Ares I, the first launch vehicle in NASA's robust, next-generation ... more Science By The Light Of The Moon 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 16, 2008In 2004, NASA announced their intentions to reinvigorate lunar science research in the United States by returning human explorers to the moon. Since the President's Vision for Space Exploration was released, space agencies from around the world have established new programs and research initiatives for lunar exploration. NASA has begun developing the infrastructure and equipment needed for ... more Chang'e-1 Sends Back Verbal Wishes 
Beijing (XNA) Sep 16, 2008China's first moon probe satellite Chang'e-1 sent back greetings to earth on Sunday, China's Mid-Autumn Festival. "Let's (all Chinese compatriots) enjoy together the bright moonlight and look forward to our reunion," the verbal wishes said, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence. The traditional festival, which falls on the full-moon ... more Russian Water Detector To Ride Piggyback On U.S. Lunar Orbiter 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 15, 2008A Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND) has had the final touches added at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Russian probe has been sent to the United States to be installed on the American Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), scheduled to be launched early in 2009. The aim of the mission is to map the Moon's surface. The task of the Russian device is ... more NASA's Ares I Rocket Passes Review To Reach Critical Milestone 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 12, 2008NASA has taken a major step toward building the nation's next generation launch vehicle with Wednesday's successful completion of the Ares I rocket preliminary design review. Starting in 2015, the Ares I rocket will launch the Orion crew exploration vehicle, its crew of four to six astronauts, and small cargo payloads to the International Space Station. The rocket also will be used for ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 05, 2008The first attempt to land humans on the moon -- Apollo 11 -- was a triumph that almost ended in disaster. At just 400 feet from the lunar surface, with only about a minute's worth of fuel remaining, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin saw that their ship's computer was taking them directly into a crater the size of a football field, strewn with SUV-sized boulders. They ... more Amateur Astronomers See Perseids Hit The Moon 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 03, 2008There's more than one way to watch a meteor shower. One, the old-fashioned way: Find a dark place with starry skies and count the meteors streaking overhead. Two, the new way: Find a dark place with starry skies and then completely ignore the meteors. Instead, watch the Moon. That's where the explosions are. On August 9th, a pair of amateur astronomers on opposite sides of the United ... more Drilling Down To Alien Oceans 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 29, 2008Some of the most interesting places in our solar system are also the most difficult to reach. Areas hidden under thick layers of ice such as the polar caps of Mars, Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa are prime examples. Drilling through ice on Earth is complicated enough, but on another world the task becomes almost impossible. ... more Tracing Tiger Stripes 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2008In a feat of interplanetary sharpshooting, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has pinpointed precisely where the icy jets erupt from the surface of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus. New carefully targeted pictures reveal exquisite details in the prominent south polar "tiger stripe" fractures from which the jets emanate. The images show the fractures are about 300 meters (980 feet) deep ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Aug 20, 2008NASA issued a Request for Information, or RFI, on Monday to gauge interest and solicit ideas from private companies in providing communications and navigation services that would support the development of exploration, scientific and commercial capabilities on the moon over the next 25 years. NASA plans to establish science stations on the lunar surface beginning as early as 2013, followed ... more Cracking The Question Of Alien Life 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2008With average temperatures of minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, an almost nonexistent atmosphere and a complex web of cracks in a layer of ice encompassing the entire surface, the environment on Jupiter's moon Europa is about as alien as they come. So are the enormous forces behind the surface display, namely an ocean beneath the ice nine times deeper than Earth's deepest ocean trench and ... more China's First Lunar Probe Satellite Normal After Eclipse 
Beijing (XNA) Aug 19, 2008China's solar-powered lunar probe satellite Chang'e 1 stood the test of a partial eclipse on Sunday as scientists altered its orbit and temporarily turning off some facilities. Based on the signals sent by the satellite after the eclipse, the Chang'e 1 was operating as expected, Monday's Beijing News quoted Liu Junze, of the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC), as saying. ... more Indian PM Aims For The Stars And The Moon 
New Delhi, India (PTI) Aug 18, 2008Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that India hopes to send a spacecraft to the moon this year and called it 'an important milestone'. that India must reach soon. Speaking from the ramparts of the historic Red Fort in Delhi on Friday as a part of the country's 61st Independence Day celebrations, the Prime Minister said, "This year we hope to send an Indian spacecraft, Chandrayaan, to ... more
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