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Spotlight on China's Moon Rover
Nov 26, 2013 (SPX)
The upcoming launch of China's Chang'e-3 Moon lander and rover follows a busy year for the Chinese space program. Awareness of China's growing strength in space...
NASA Spacecraft Begins Collecting Lunar Atmosphere Data
Nov 25, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is ready to begin collecting science data about the moon. On Nov. 20, the spacecraft successfully ...
We're Going to the Moon!
Nov 24, 2013 (SPX)
In 2015, Penn State's Lunar Lion team plans to put an unmanned spacecraft on the moon. In 2013, the ambitious project is putting cutting edge NASA equipment in ...
Rediscovered Apollo data gives first measure of how fast Moon dust piles up
Nov 22, 2013 (SPX)
When Neil Armstrong took humanity's first otherworldly steps in 1969, he didn't know what a nuisance the lunar soil beneath his feet would prove to be. The scra...
Big Boost for China's Moon Lander
Nov 22, 2013 (SPX)
Things are going well for China's first lunar landing. The Chang'e-3 spacecraft and its rover are being processed at the launch site. So is the rocket to be use...
NASA's GRAIL Mission Puts a New Face on the Moon
Nov 11, 2013 (JPL)
Scientists using data from the lunar-orbiting twins of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission are gaining new insight into how the face...
Moon mission yields clues to face of 'man in the moon'
Nov 07, 2013 (UPI)
Scientists using data from twin lunar-orbiting spacecraft are gaining new insight into how the face of the moon received its rugged good looks, NASA reports. Th...
Shanghai-built lunar rover set for lunar landing
Nov 05, 2013 (XNA)
A Shanghai-made lunar rover is all set to land on the moon with the Chang'e-3, China's third lunar probe that is set to be launched next month, local officials ...
Crowdfunded Lunar Spacecraft Reaches Funding Milestone
Oct 22, 2013 (SPX)
The Aerospace Research and Engineering Systems Instituteis excited to announce the successful completion of the first phase of crowdfunding and conceptual devel...
LADEE Continues To Settle Into Operational Lunar Orbit
Oct 20, 2013 (SPX)
During the NASA shutdown, the LADEE mission continued to perform its critical maneuvers and capture into the commissioning orbit around the moon. The trajectory...
NASA's moon landing remembered as a promise of a 'future which never happened'
Oct 08, 2013 (SPX)
footage of the first moon landing promised a future of sci-fi heroism that never came to pass, according to a new study. The paper, by Professor Steve Brown and...
Russia could build manned lunar base
Oct 08, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
The federal space agency Roscosmos has launched a feasibility study of a project to build a manned base on the Moon, Academician Lev Zelyony, director of the Ru...
China unveils its first and unnamed moon rover
Sep 30, 2013 (XNA)
Chinese scientists described the country's first moon rover on Wednesday and invited the global public to come up with a name for it. Zhao Xiaojin, director of ...
Mighty Eagle Improves Autonomous Landing Software With Successful Flight
Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)
The Mighty Eagle, a NASA robotic prototype lander managed out of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. successfully completed a test flight to...
Mission to moon will boost research and awareness
Sep 25, 2013 (XNA)
China could take advantage of its Chang'e-3 lunar exploration mission to boost international cooperation on space exploration and promote space education and aw...
Chang'e-3 lunar probe sent to launch site
Sep 18, 2013 (XNA)
China's Chang'e-3 lunar probe is on its way from Beijing to the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in south west Sichuan province. It's expected to be launched at ...
Watch Out for the Harvest Moon
Sep 18, 2013 (SPX)
According to folklore, every full Moon has a special name. There's the Wolf Moon, the Snow Moon, the Worm Moon, the Sprouting Grass Moon, the Flower Moon, the S...
Sixteen Tons of Moondust
Sep 17, 2013 (SPX)
If you listen closely, you might hear a NASA project manager singing this song. Lately, Marshall Space Flight Center's Carole McLemore has been working at the e...
Scientists say water on moon may have originated on Earth
Sep 10, 2013 (UPI)
Water found in ancient Moon rocks might have actually originated on the early Earth and even survived the Moon-forming collision event, British researchers say....
NASA-Funded Scientists Detect Water on Moon's Surface that Hints at Water Below
Sep 09, 2013 (SPX)
NASA-funded lunar research has yielded evidence of water locked in mineral grains on the surface of the moon from an unknown source deep beneath the surface. Us...
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