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Leaping Lunar Dust
Mar 20, 2013 (SPX)
Electrically charged lunar dust near shadowed craters can get lofted above the surface and jump over the shadowed region, bouncing back and forth between sunlit...
Amazon's Bezos recovers Apollo 11 engines
Mar 20, 2013 (AFP)
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos claimed success Wednesday in his mission to recover Apollo 11 moon mission engines that plunged into the ocean decades ago. "We found ...
China sets moon mission re-entry test
Mar 14, 2013 (UPI)
China says it will conduct re-entry tests before 2015 of a spacecraft to be used in a mission to have a lunar explorer probe bring lunar soil samples to Earth. ...
Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Seeks Public Support To Retrieve Apollo Era Moon Images
Mar 14, 2013 (SPX)
The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) is seeking support from the public as it continues its efforts to recover and enhance Moon images from the 1960...
Lunar impacts created seas of molten rock
Mar 13, 2013 (SPX)
Early in the Moon's history an ocean of molten rock covered its entire surface. As that lunar magma ocean cooled over millions of years, it differentiated to fo...
China to use modified rocket for moon landing mission
Mar 04, 2013 (XNA)
A rocket expert said Friday that China has developed a modified model of the Long March-3B carrier rocket for an upcoming moon landing mission to be completed b...
Water On The Moon: It's Been There All Along
Feb 22, 2013 (SPX)
Traces of water have been detected within the crystalline structure of mineral samples from the lunar highland upper crust obtained during the Apollo missions, ...
Building a lunar base with 3D printing
Feb 05, 2013 (SPX)
Setting up a lunar base could be made much simpler by using a 3D printer to build it from local materials. Industrial partners including renowned architects Fos...
Russia to Launch Lunar Mission in 2015
Jan 17, 2013 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will launch a robotic lunar station in 2015, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin said on Tuesday. Luna-Glob will lift off from the Vos...
US, Europe team up for moon fly-by
Jan 16, 2013 (AFP)
The US and European space agencies on Wednesday announced a new partnership pairing a European cargo module with NASA's Orion space capsule, which aims to take ...
Mission would drag asteroid to the moon
Jan 07, 2013 (UPI)
NASA is considering a mission to capture an asteroid and drag it into the moon's orbit for study, researchers in California have confirmed. Scientists at the Ke...
Russia designs manned lunar spacecraft
Dec 26, 2012 (UPI)
Russian space company Energia has completed the technical design of a manned spacecraft whose flight tests would be initiated in 2017, company officials say. "W...
GRAIL Lunar Impact Site Named for Astronaut Sally Ride
Dec 18, 2012 (JPL)
NASA has named the site where twin agency spacecraft impacted the moon Monday in honor of the late astronaut Sally K. Ride, who was America's first woman in spa...
No plans of sending an Indian on moon
Dec 17, 2012 (IANS)
India has no plans to put an astronaut on the moon, as of now. Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office V Narayanasamy in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday sa...
Rocket Burn Sets Stage for Dynamic Moon Duos' Lunar Impact
Dec 17, 2012 (JPL)
The lunar twins of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission have each completed a rocket burn that has sealed their fate. The burns modif...
NASA probes crash into the moon
Dec 17, 2012 (AFP)
Two NASA probes crashed into the moon on Monday after spending months gathering data by orbiting miles above the lunar surface, the US space agency said. The si...
NASA Gravity Probes Prepare to Hit the Moon
Dec 14, 2012 (SPX)
A pair of NASA spacecraft that have been studying the Moon's gravitational field are being prepared for a controlled descent into a mountain near the Moon's nor...
Apollo's Lunar Dust Data Being Restored
Dec 12, 2012 (SPX)
Forty years after the last Apollo spacecraft launched, the science from those missions continues to shape our view of the moon. In one of the latest development...
To the moon and back for less than 2 billion dollars
Dec 06, 2012 (AFP)
Two former top NASA officials unveiled plans Thursday to sell manned flights to the moon by the end of the decade, in an announcement 40 years after the last hu...
NASA's GRAIL Creates Most Accurate Moon Gravity Map
Dec 06, 2012 (SPX)
Twin NASA probes orbiting Earth's moon have generated the highest resolution gravity field map of any celestial body. The new map, created by the Gravity Recove...
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