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NASA Selects Material For Orion Spacecraft Heat Shield
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 14, 2009NASA has chosen the material for a heat shield that will protect a new generation of space explorers when they return from the moon. After extensive study, NASA has selected the Avcoat ablator system for the Orion crew module. Orion is part of the Constellation Program that is developing the country's next-generation spacecraft system for human exploration of the moon and further destinati ... more Earthshine Reflects Earth's Oceans And Continents From Dark Side Of Moon 
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Apr 08, 2009Researchers from the University of Melbourne and Princeton University have shown for the first time that the difference in reflection of light from the Earth's land masses and oceans can be seen on the dark side of the moon, a phenomenon known as earthshine. The paper is published in this week's edition of the international journal Astrobiology. Sally Langford from the University of ... more NASA Names 16th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race Winners 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 07, 2009NASA this weekend named its "off-world racing" champions in the 16th annual Great Moonbuggy Race: Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, N.Y. won the college division; and Erie High School Team 2 from Erie, Kan., and Huntsville Center for Technology Team 2 from Huntsville, Ala., tied for first place in the high school division. The three teams bested a field of competitors that in ... more Lunar Gardening - A Greenhouse On The Moon By 2014 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 03, 2009"Imagine a bright flower on a green plant in a little dome-shaped growth chamber, sitting on the landscape of the moon, with the Earth rising up behind," said Taber MacCallum, CEO of Paragon Space Development Corporation. "I think it's a great vision." That vision of the first moon flower will likely become a reality, perhaps by 2014. Paragon has teamed up with Google Lunar X-PRIZE contend ... more 'Out Of This World - Wonders Of The Solar System' Opens 
Oberhausen, Germany (SPX) Apr 02, 2009From Thursday, 2 April 2009 the new exhibition 'Out of this World - Wonders of the Solar System' will be open to visitors at the Oberhausen Gasometer. It shows our Solar System as a huge process of growth and decay and takes visitors on a journey into the cosmos. Spectacular reproductions of our planetary system, fascinating images of alien worlds, precious historical instruments and moder ... more |
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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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