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Sixteen Tons Of Moondust
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 13, 2009If you listen closely, you might hear a NASA project manager singing this song. Lately, Marshall Space Flight Center's Carole McLemore has been working at the end of a sledge hammer opposite a big pile of rocks, so she has good reason to sing the song Tennessee Ernie Ford made famous. "I call it 'choppin' rocks,' " says McLemore, who manages Marshall's Regolith Simulant Team." The guys kee ... more NASA Selects Research Teams For Lunar Science Institute 
Moffett Field, CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2009NASA has selected seven academic and research teams as initial members of the agency's Lunar Science Institute. The institute supports scientific research to supplement and extend existing NASA lunar science programs in coordination with U.S. space exploration policy. The selection of the members encompasses academic institutions, non-profit research institutes, private companies, NASA cen ... more NASA Funds Lunar Dust Detector For 2012 Mission 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 12, 2009The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded a $6 million grant from NASA to build a high-tech lunar dust detector for a 2011 mission to orbit the moon and conduct science investigations of the dusty lunar surface and its atmosphere. Known as the Lunar Dust Experiment, or LDEX, the instrument will be designed and built at CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. ... more CU-Boulder Selected For Two Lunar Research Grants 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 12, 2009The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded two grants totaling $11 million today from NASA's Lunar Science Institute to probe the cosmos from observatories on the moon and to conduct science and safety investigations on the dusty lunar surface and its atmosphere. The two CU-Boulder grants from the Lunar Science Institute, which was created by NASA in March 2008, are expected to ... more Lunar Rock-Like Material May Someday House Moon Colonies 
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Jan 09, 2009Dwellings in colonies on the moon one day may be built with new, highly durable bricks developed by students from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. Initially designed to construct a dome, the building material is composed of a lunar rock-like material mixed with powdered aluminum that can be molded into any shape. The invention recently won the In-Situ Lunar Resource Utilization ... more |
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Bangalore, India (SPX) Dec 29, 2009The moon mineralogy mapper (M3), a scientific instrument of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) onboard India's first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1, found iron-bearing minerals on the lunar surface, the US space agency said Thursday. "The mapper spectrometer has beamed images of the Orientale Basin region of the moon, indicating abundance of iron-bearing minerals such as ... more To Go Where No Spacecraft Has Gone Before 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 30, 2008Scattered loosely around the beltline of Earth's nearest neighbor are six silent sentinels, testaments to America's first moon program. Standing all of 10 feet high and 30 feet wide (from footpad to footpad), each of these lunar module descent stages is more than a historical artifact that powered two Apollo astronauts to a safe landing on the moon's surface. They are unearthly reminders of the ... more ISRO Eyes Lunar Landing In 2012 And Mars Mission In 2013 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Dec 29, 2008Buoyed by the success of Chandrayaan-I, Indian space scientists now plan to conquer new frontiers by sending a robot on moon in 2012 and a spacecraft to Mars the following year which will also see an Indian astronaut in space. Indian Space Research Organisation has lined up a slew of missions which also include landing a spacecraft on an asteroid and sending a probe to fly past a co ... more Next NASA Moon Mission Completes Major Milestone 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 29, 2008NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing, which simulates the extreme hot, cold and airless conditions of space LRO will experience after launch. This milestone concludes the orbiter's environmental test program at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The orbiter will carry seven instruments to provide scientists with de ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Dec 17, 2008 U.S. space agency officials have released a draft request for design support for the Altair lunar lander vehicle, part of NASA's Constellation Program. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it's Altair lunar lander will deliver four astronauts to the moon's surface late in the next decade, fulfilling U.S. space exploration goals. "The Altair Conceptual Design ... more Titan's Volcanoes Give NASA Spacecraft Chilly Reception 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2008Data collected during several recent flybys of Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft have put another arrow in the quiver of scientists who think the Saturnian moon contains active cryovolcanoes spewing a super-chilled liquid into its atmosphere. The information was released during a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, Calif. ... more Papua New Guinea tidal waves displace 75,000: UN 
Geneva (AFP) Dec 16, 2008Papua New Guinea has been pummelled by non-stop tidal waves and unusually high tides that have forced 75,000 people from their homes this month, the United Nations said Tuesday. The autonomous PNG region of Bougainville, the Solomon Islands, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia were also affected by the high waves, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of ... more Unmasking Europa 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 16, 2008What lies beneath Europa's icy crust? Richard Greenberg has been pondering this question for 30-odd years. His new book, Unmasking Europa, describes his view that Europa's hidden ocean and the life forms it may support are not that far below the surface. A professor in the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, Greenberg was one of the first to formulate how tidal for ... more
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