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Washington DC (SPX) Mar 10, 2009In 1961, when President John F. Kennedy told Congress we'd put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, he knew that the journey of discovery would yield more value than simply beating the Russians to the moon. "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth," were the w ... more Quadruple Saturn Moon Transit Snapped By Hubble 
Baltimore, MD (SPX) Mar 19, 2009On February 24, 2009, the Hubble Space Telescope took a photo of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet. In this view, the giant orange moon Titan casts a large shadow onto Saturn's north polar hood. Below Titan, near the ring plane and to the left is the moon Mimas, casting a much smaller shadow onto Saturn's equatorial cloud tops. Farther to the left, and off Saturn ... more NASA Moon Mission Brings Divergent Passions Together 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 18, 2009Growing up in the rural Appalachian foothills of the Ohio Valley, John Marmie developed a passion for music. When he combined that passion with his enthusiasm for space exploration, he was inspired to write an original song, 'Water on the Moon.' As the deputy project manager for the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Fiel ... more Russia picking moon rocket design 
Moscow (UPI) Mar 16, 2009 Russian space officials say they will select the winning design this month for the rocket intended to carry cosmonauts to the moon within a decade. Alexander Chulkov, head of the rocket and launch facilities directorate at Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, told the BBC News the winner will be picked by March 25. "We have a bidding procedure, under which we made a request for prop ... more Third Meeting Of ISECG 
Yokohama, Japan (SPX) Mar 17, 2009Representatives of ten space agencies from around the world met under the banner of the International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG)1. They adopted for further study three scenarios for conducting internationally coordinated robotic and human exploration activities on the Moon. This was one of several results arising from a meeting held on March 10-12, 2009, in Yokohama Japan. ... more |
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Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 13, 2009Add another moon to the New Horizons photo gallery: the spacecraft's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager detected Triton, the largest of Neptune's 13 known moons, during the annual spacecraft checkout last fall. New Horizons was 2.33 billion miles (3.75 billion kilometers) from Neptune on Oct. 16, when LORRI, following a programmed sequence of commands, locked onto the planet and snapped away ... more NASA's Ares I Rocket First Stage Igniter Tested 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 12, 2009NASA has completed a successful test firing of the igniter that will be used to start the Ares I rocket first stage motor. The March 10 test paves the way for the initial ground test of the Ares I first stage later this year. Ares I is the first launch vehicle in NASA's Constellation Program family of space vehicles that will transport astronauts and cargo to the International Space Statio ... more HiRISE Camera Captures Subtle Colors of Mars' Tiny Moon Deimos 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 12, 2009The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, run from The University of Arizona, has produced new images that show subtle color differences across the smooth surface of Deimos, the smaller and outer tiny moon of Mars. The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured two images of Deimos using near-infrared, red and blue-green filters on Feb. 21, 2009. ... more China Able To Send Man To Moon Around 2020 
Beijing (XNA) Mar 12, 2009A Chinese astronautics professor said Tuesday the country is capable of sending astronauts to moon around 2020. "The key technology problem is the 'returning'", said Xu Shijie, a professor from the Beijing University of Aeronautics, explaining that the country's three-stage moon mission could be defined as "orbiting", "landing" and "returning". The third stage will last from 2017 to ... more |
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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 Boeing Submits Proposal For Altair Lunar Lander Study Contract 
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 03, 2009Boeing, through its Space Exploration division, has submitted a proposal to NASA for Altair lunar lander design support. NASA is expected to award multiple contracts this spring. The lunar lander, part of NASA's Constellation program, will launch aboard the Ares V heavy-lift rocket and provide astronauts with life support and a base for exploration missions. Altair will also return the cre ... more NASA Tests Parachute For Ares Rocket 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 03, 2009NASA and industry engineers successfully completed the second drop test of a drogue parachute for the Ares I rocket. The test took place Feb. 28 at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz. The Ares I, the first launch vehicle in NASA's Constellation Program, will send explorers to the International Space Station, the moon and beyond in coming decades. The drogue parachute ... more
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