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Aldrin recounts successes and challenges of historic space journey
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
History remembers the two American astronauts who first walked on the moon on July 20, 1969. One of those astronauts, Buzz Aldrin, told a crowd in Lee Hall's Be...
The forgotten moon landing that paved the way for today's space adventures
Feb 07, 2016 (SPX)
Crashing into a planet is seldom a good idea. If you're trying to travel to another world, you're likely to land at tens of kilometres per second unless you do ...
Edgar Mitchell, astronaut who walked on Moon, dead at 85
Feb 06, 2016 (AFP)
US astronaut Edgar Mitchell, one of just 12 people to have walked on the Moon, has died aged 85, his family and NASA said Friday, calling him a "pioneer." NASA ...
ASU satellite selected for NASA Space Launch System's first flight
Feb 04, 2016 (SPX)
The first flight of NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), will carry 13 low-cost CubeSats, including one from Arizona State University, to test inno...
Lunar Flashlight selected to fly as secondary payload on Exploration Mission-1
Feb 03, 2016 (SPX)
NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems Division recently selected the Lunar Flashlight CubeSat as a secondary payload to fly aboard the Space Launch System's Explo...
Phase of the moon affects amount of rainfall
Jan 31, 2016 (SPX)
When the moon is high in the sky, it creates bulges in the planet's atmosphere that creates imperceptible changes in the amount of rain that falls below. New Un...
Russia postpones manned Lunar mission to 2035
Jan 21, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russia initially planned to launch a manned aircraft to the moon atop an Angara heavy rocket carrier from its Vostochny space port in 2025. The earlier version ...
Audi joins Google Lunar XPrize competition
Jan 15, 2016 (UPI)
Audi is lending its engineering talents to a team of scientists in the Google Lunar XPrize competition. Together, the German auto makers and the "Part-Time Scie...
Lunar mission moves a step closer
Jan 12, 2016 (XNA)
China has developed the manufacturing techniques for a key part to be used on its super-heavy rocket that will fulfill the nation's manned missions to the moon....
Momentum builds for creation of 'moon villages'
Jan 08, 2016 (SPX)
Villages on the moon, constructed through cooperation between astronauts and robotic systems on the lunar surface, could become a reality as early as 2030. That...
Chang'e-3 landing site named Guang Han Gong
Jan 06, 2016 (XNA)
The landing site of China's first moon lander Chang'e-3 has been named "Guang Han Gong" or "Moon Palace", more than two years after the spacecraft made a succes...
Death rumors of Russian lunar program 'greatly exaggerated' - Deputy PM
Dec 31, 2015 (Sputnik)
Russia's deputy prime minister refuted rumors that the country's lunar program is in a crisis, saying that it in fact is far from being cut. Russia has not drop...
South Korea to launch lunar exploration in 2016, land by 2020
Dec 31, 2015 (Sputnik)
South Korea plans to launch a lunar exploration project next year with a 2020 timeframe of landing a lunar vessel, the country's Ministry of Science, ICT and Fu...
Russia Postpones Plans on Extensive Moon Exploration Until 2025
Dec 30, 2015 (Sputnik)
The Russian space agency Roscosmos will give up on manned flights to the Moon and related activities at least until 2025, the Russian Izvestia newspaper reporte...
LADEE Mission Shows Force of Meteoroid Strikes on Lunar Exosphere
Dec 21, 2015 (SPX)
NASA scientists have released new findings about the Moon's tenuous exosphere - the thin layer of gas surrounding the Moon that is one 25-trillionth the density...
Rare full moon on Christmas Day
Dec 21, 2015 (SPX)
Not since 1977 has a full moon dawned in the skies on Christmas. But this year, a bright full moon will be an added gift for the holidays. December's full moon,...
XPRIZE verifies moon express launch contract, kicking off new space race
Dec 10, 2015 (SPX)
Moon Express has received official verification of their launch contract from XPRIZE as part of the $30M Google Lunar XPRIZE, a global competition for privately...
SwRI scientists explain why moon rocks contain fewer volatiles than Earth's
Nov 10, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists at Southwest Research Institute combined dynamical, thermal, and chemical models of the Moon's formation to explain the relative lack of volatile ele...
Gaia's sensors scan a lunar transit
Nov 09, 2015 (ESA)
Located 1.5 million km from the Earth, ESA's Gaia spacecraft is scanning the sky to conduct the most detailed census of stars in our Galaxy. However, on 6 Novem...
Russian moon mission would need 4 Angara-A5V launches
Oct 30, 2015 (Sputnik)
Organizing for Russian cosmonauts to fly to the Moon will require four launches of Angara-?5V heavy-class carrier rockets during the initial stage of the missio...
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