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Raytheon Helps Pave Way For Man's Next Moon Journey El Segundo CA (SPX) Jul 29, 2009 Sensing technology developed by Raytheon for the U.S. Navy's miniaturized radio frequency system has begun its one-year mission to determine whether the polar regions of the moon contain ice. Launched aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter June 18 and activated July 8, the system, known as Mini-RF, will take high-resolution radar imagery of permanently shaded regions of the moon to ... read more Insurance Coverage On The Final Frontier Rosslyn VA (SPX) Jul 29, 2009 As last week's 40th anniversary of the moon landing focused attention on the future of manned space flight, observers said early providers of space tourism would face expensive pricing for property and liability cover and possibly scarce capacity. The advent of private companies routinely taking paying passengers into orbit to visit space stations, or even to experience weightlessness on ... more
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Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director
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Maximizing Scientific Return Of The Moon Rovers Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 28, 2009 NASA and other national space agencies are again focused on lunar exploration, which raises the question of how to best use semi-autonomous rovers to explore the Moon's surface. R. Aileen Yingst, a senior scientist at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, is leading a group of Mars-rover veterans who are conducting field studies to answer that question. The scientists are ... more New Sunscreen For ISRO's Manned Mission Bangalore, India (SPX) Jul 27, 2009 The intense radiation from the sun that roasted India's first unmanned lunar satellite's key orientation instrument - the star sensor - has raised concerns over the safety of Indian astronauts on the country's first manned space flight, planned around 2015. A scientist from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) pointed out that radiation can kill astronauts if the emissions from ... more Tiny Saturn Moon Could Be Targeted In Search For ET Life Tempe AZ (SPX) Jul 24, 2009 Plumes spewing from a tiny moon of Saturn - a moon roughly the width of Arizona - are filled with molecules that suggest that the moon, Enceladus, is likely another place in the solar system to look for life, Cassini scientist Jonathan Lunine of The University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory said. When NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew through a plume erupting from Enceladus early ... more |
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US marks 40 years since man first walked on the moon Washington (AFP) July 20, 2009 The United States marks the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon walk Monday, with President Barack Obama meeting at the White House with the crew of the Apollo 11 mission. The crew became the first to accomplish the dream of ages and walk on the surface of the moon -- an endeavor now remembered at a time when future US dominance in space has become far less certain. "That's one ... more Apollo 11 Moon Rocks Still Crucial 40 Years Later St Louis MO (SPX) Jul 21, 2009 A lunar geochemist at Washington University in St. Louis says that there are still many answers to be gleaned from the moon rocks collected by the Apollo 11 astronauts on their historic moonwalk 40 years ago July 20. And he credits another WUSTL professor for the fact that the astronauts even collected the moon rocks in the first place. Randy L. Korotev, Ph.D., a research professor ... more LROC's First Look At The Apollo Landing Sites Tempe AZ (SPX) Jul 21, 2009 The imaging system on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently had its first of many opportunities to photograph the Apollo landing sites. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) imaged five of the six Apollo sites with the narrow angle cameras (NACs) between July 11 and 15, within days of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. The early images obtained by ... more |
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