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NRL Astronomers Selected For NASA's Lunar Science Institute
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 05, 2009NASA has selected seven academic and research teams as initial members of the agency's Lunar Science Institute (NLSI), and Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers will play a substantial role on one of the teams. NRL is a leading institution supporting the "Lunar University Node for Astrophysics Research (LUNAR): Exploring the Cosmos from the Moon" team. Dr. Jack Burns at the Universit ... more China To Land Probe On Moon At Latest In 2013 
Beijing (XNA) Mar 03, 2009China plans to land Chang'e-3 on the moon at latest in 2013, Ye Peijian, chief designer of Chang'e-1, the country's first moon probe, said here Monday. The mission of Chang'e-3 is to make soft landing and probe the moon, said Ye, a member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top political advisory body. Before the ... more Obama's First Budget Backs Core Lunar 2.0 Goals 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2009The National Space Society (NSS) was informed that President Obama has requested $18.7 billion for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for Fiscal Year 2010, an increase of $900 million over the current year's budget. The Recovery Act (stimulus bill) passed earlier this month provided an additional $1 billion to NASA. "We are pleased that one of the four budget prioriti ... more Help To Define A Lunar Lander 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 03, 2009ESA's Directorate of Human Spaceflight is inviting industrial, technology and scientific communities to provide inputs for experiments and payload elements for accommodation on its first lunar lander. This Request for Information follows last year's ESA Council Meeting at Ministerial Level, where funding was approved for ESA to work towards launching a lunar lander in the 2017-20 timeframe ... more What Is The Story Behind The Dark Side Of The Moon 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Mar 03, 2009The rock band Pink Floyd named an album after it: 'The Dark Side of the Moon'. In reality this satellite of the Earth does not have a dark side - over the course of one month the Sun shines upon the entire surface of the Moon. The Moon is not visible from the Earth with the naked eye when it is positioned between the Earth and the Sun (new Moon), but its reverse side is fully lit. ... more |
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Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Mar 02, 2009Small robots the size of riding mowers could prepare a safe landing site for NASA's Moon outpost, according to a NASA-sponsored study prepared by Astrobotic Technology Inc. with technical assistance from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. Astrobotic Technology and Carnegie Mellon researchers analyzed mission requirements and developed the design for an innovative new type of ... more Otherworldly Solar Eclipse 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 27, 2009For the first time, a spacecraft from Earth has captured hi-resolution images of a solar eclipse while orbiting another world. Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter accomplished the feat on Feb. 9, 2009, when the Sun, Earth and Moon lined up in a nearly perfect row. From Kaguya's point of view, Earth moved in front of the Sun, producing an otherworldly "diamond-ring" eclipse. The sequence beg ... more NASA Goddard Brings The Moon To Earth 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2009This winter the television production team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. shrank the moon down to a six-foot globe and put it on display in their Visitor Center. They've made a new, fully spherical short film called "Return to the Moon". Designed expressly for the Science On a Sphere platform, it opens in science museums and elsewhere around the country on February 27. ... more Lunar Habitat Power System Begins Important Tests 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 23, 2009NASA today begins testing elements of a power system that is a potential candidate to provide the energy needed to support a human outpost on the moon. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has a one-of-a-kind test facility that enables engineers to simulate the nuclear power process of heat transfer from a reactor to a power converter - without using nuclear materials. ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Feb 12, 2009A new detailed map of the Moon released Thursday shows the Earth's satellite holds very little water and reveals never-before seen craters at the poles, an international research team said. "The surface can tell us a lot about what's happening inside the Moon, but until now mapping has been very limited," C.K Shum, professor of Earth sciences at Ohio State University, said in the February 13 ... more Life Above And Below 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 13, 2009Seth Shostak: Our next speaker is T.C. Onstott. He is a Princeton University geochemist, and one of Time magazine's "100 most influential people of 2008." T.C. Onstott: I'll be talking about Subsurface World. Jupiter's moon Europa is one of those places within our solar system where we might expect to find Subsurface World. By analyzing the DNA within a bacterium, we can figure out ... more Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Is Shipped To Florida 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 12, 2009NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft was loaded on a truck Wednesday to begin its two-day journey to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launch is targeted for April 24. The spacecraft was built by engineers at Goddard, where it recently completed two months of tests in a thermal vacuum chamber. During its time in the chamber, the spacecraft was subjected to hot and ... more Astronomers Will Train MMT Telescope On Moon During 2009 Impact 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 09, 2009Astronomers will use the powerful University of Arizona/Smithsonian MMT Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Ariz., to search for lunar water ice when NASA fires a 2-ton rocket into a polar crater on the moon later this year. Water is a crucial resource on the moon because it would not be practical to transport to space the amount of water needed for human and exploration needs. NASA ... more
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