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In a dry, dusty paddock thousands of miles from Mission Control, a group of Australian astronomers were the first people in the world to witness a giant leap for mankind. It was 12 minutes past 11 am when Apollo 11 appeared over Dead Man's Hill, just outside the Australian capital, Canberra, and engineer Hamish Lindsay was waiting with bated breath. "I'd had six years' preparation for ... read more
Washington (AFP) July 12, 2009Forty years after Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon, there are still those who insist that his giant leap for mankind happened on a film set in Arizona, not on the lunar surface. The deniers insist that NASA went to extraordinary lengths and great expense to stage a moon landing in a film studio because it wanted to distract a public weary of the Vietnam war, or felt it ... more
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Washington (AFP) July 12, 2009A member of the first team to set foot on the moon, astronaut Buzz Aldrin is a staunch advocate of space exploration who once publicly punched a man who claimed the lunar landings were a hoax. "Beautiful, beautiful. Magnificent desolation," he said as he became the second person - just minutes after Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong - to set foot on another world on July 20, 1969. ... more 
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) July 12, 2009For the man of faith, walking on the moon challenged and redefined his concept of God and creation. For the scientist, it was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to deepen his knowledge. But astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Harrison Schmitt can agree on one thing: mankind has a duty and a responsibility to continue its adventure in space in our solar system and beyond. Aldrin, now 79, landed on the ... more 
Washington (AFP) July 12, 2009With one small step off a ladder, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, before the eyes of hundreds of millions of awed television viewers worldwide. With that step, he placed mankind's first footprint on an extraterrestrial world and gained instant hero status. His first words upon stepping on the lunar surface have since been etched in ... more 
Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Jul 10, 2009The historic moment almost 40 years ago when man first set foot on the Moon had enormous impact on those who watched, often inspiring them to pursue space or science careers. This is the picture painted by the more than 100 recollections of the Apollo 11 Moon landing being published on the Space Foundation's website this week and next. The brief comments come from a wide range of ... more |
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World's first gigawatt-scale offshore solar project begins operationSydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 18, 2024 The world's first gigawatt-scale offshore solar power project has successfully been connected to the grid and started power generation, according to CHN Energy Investment Group (CHN Energy). S ... more  
'Nobody can reverse' US progress on clean energy: BidenManaus, Brazil (AFP) Nov 17, 2024 US President Joe Biden on Sunday touted his administration's "clean energy revolution" during a visit to the Amazon in Brazil adding, in reference to President-elect Donald Trump, that "nobody can reverse it." ... more 
Scientists to create solar lasers for space power inspired by natureLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 19, 2024 An international collaboration, including researchers from Scotland's Heriot-Watt University, has announced a pioneering approach to harness solar energy in space by converting sunlight into laser b ... more
  
RTX's Raytheon secures U.S. Army contract for wireless power beamingLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 16, 2024 Raytheon, a business segment of RTX (NYSE: RTX), has secured a contract from the U.S. Army to advance directed energy wireless power beaming systems. This technology aims to improve power distributi ... more 
Tackling the energy revolution, one sector at a timeBoston MA (SPX) Nov 12, 2024 As a major contributor to global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the transportation sector has immense potential to advance decarbonization. However, a zero-emissions global supply chain requires re ... more 
NASA opens Power Systems essay contest for K12 studentsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 08, 2024 NASA has launched the fourth annual Power to Explore Student Challenge, inviting U.S. students from kindergarten through 12th grade to submit essays envisioning new nuclear-powered missions to any m ... more |
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Bangalore, India (PTI) Jul 06, 2009India's second lunar mission Chandrayaan-II is likely to be launched by 2013, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair said Saturday. 'Chandrayaan-II should take place by 2013. Our first lunar mission, Chandrayaan-I, has given us a substantial understanding about entering the moon's orbit. But ensuring the safe landing of the rover on the lunar surface is still ... more 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 03, 2009NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has transmitted its first images since reaching lunar orbit June 23. The spacecraft has two cameras - a low resolution Wide Angle Camera and a high resolution Narrow Angle Camera. Collectively known as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC, they were activated June 30. The cameras are working well and have returned images of a region ... more 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 30, 2009Robert C. Reedy, a senior scientist at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, is mapping the Moon's surface elements using data gathered by an advanced gamma-ray spectrometer (GRS) that rode aboard the Japanese Kaguya spacecraft. The data promise to show chemical elements on the Moon that have never been identified before, and Reedy and the Kaguya GRS team already have found uranium ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 29, 2009On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon landing, NASA is seeking ideas from the public, academia, and industry about how to analyze and catalog notes from spaceflight pioneer Wernher von Braun into an electronic, searchable database or other system. Von Braun was the first director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and a key figure in the ... more |
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