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NASA Contract to Astrobotic Technology Investigates Prospecting for Lunar Resources
Apr 30, 2012 (SPX)
Astrobotic Technology Inc. has announced a NASA contract to determine whether its polar rover can deploy an ice-prospecting payload to the Moon. The ice could y...
India's second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 to wait
Apr 30, 2012 (IANS)
India's second Moon mission Chandrayaan-2, slated for 2014, will have to wait till the country's space agency flies two of its heavy rocket - Geosynchronous Sat...
Moon Express Delivers Lunar Mission Design Report for mining the Moon for precious resources
Apr 27, 2012 (SPX)
Moon Express has announced that it has successfully delivered a mission design package to NASA under its Innovative Lunar Demonstration Data (ILDD) Program, pro...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Brings 'Earthrise' to Everyone
Apr 25, 2012 (SPX)
Imagine yourself in orbit, your spacecraft flying backward with its small window facing down toward the surface of the moon. You peer out, scouring the ash-colo...
Winners of 19th Annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race Announced
Apr 20, 2012 (SPX)
America's space agency has crowned its vehicular engineering victors at the close of the 19th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race at the U.S. Space and Rocket Cent...
Russian Space Agency eyes Moon explorations
Apr 18, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
Luna-Glob, a Moon-exploration program, will be a priority for the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) for the next 10 years, academician Lev Zeleny, direct...
Russia postpones Luna-Glob moon mission
Apr 12, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's Luna-Glob moon mission will see its first moon landing in 2015, a year later than originally planned, the Space Research Institute of the Russian Acade...
Russia Plans to Launch Lunar Rovers to Moon after 2020
Apr 09, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
Russia plans to send two lunar rovers to Moon after 2020 and a landing station after 2022 as the first steps to form the future manned lunar base there, the cou...
Russia to explore moon
Apr 07, 2012 (UPI)
Russian scientists said Saturday they plan to put two lunar rovers on the moon by 2020 and a landing station after 2022. The efforts are for someday having a ma...
Earth's Other Moons
Apr 04, 2012 (SPX)
Earth usually has more than one moon, according to a team of astronomers from the University of Helsinki, the Paris Observatory and the University of Hawaii at ...
Flying Formation - Around the Moon at 3,600 MPH
Mar 29, 2012 (JPL)
The act of two or more aircraft flying together in a disciplined, synchronized manner is one of the cornerstones of military aviation, as well as just about any...
NASA's Grail MoonKam Returns First Student-Selected Lunar Images
Mar 26, 2012 (SPX)
One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera. Fourth grade stu...
Ecliptic MoonKAM Systems Begin Operations in Lunar Orbit
Mar 23, 2012 (JPL)
Two four-camera color video systems supplied by Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation to NASA's dual-spacecraft Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) proj...
China to get lunar soil
Mar 19, 2012 (IANS)
Preparations are on in China to launch a moon mission and bring about two kilogram of lunar soil samples to Earth, People's Daily reported Friday. The mission i...
Two New NASA LRO Videos: See Moon's Evolution, Take a Tour
Mar 19, 2012 (SPX)
In honor of 1,000 days in orbit, the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md. has released two new vide...
Why do We See the Man in the Moon?
Mar 16, 2012 (SPX)
There's something poetic about gazing up at the night sky, seeing the familiar face of the "Man in the Moon" who faithfully accompanies us through life. The syn...
China's second moon orbiter outperforms design
Mar 16, 2012 (XNA)
China's second moon orbiter, the Chang'e-2, has performed outstandingly, a Chinese lawmaker close to the lunar exploration project said Tuesday. Chang'e-2 has m...
Space Systems Loral Provides on Time Delivery of NASA Propulsion System
Mar 16, 2012 (SPX)
Space Systems/Loral has completed on time delivery of a new propulsion system to NASA. The propulsion system for the Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer ...
China starts manufacturing third lunar probe
Mar 15, 2012 (XNA)
China has begun designing and manufacturing the flight model entity of its third lunar probe, Chang'e-3, according to the administration of China's lunar probe ...
Russia sets sights on Moon, Mars and beyond: report
Mar 13, 2012 (AFP)
Russia's crisis-hit space agency intends to send its first manned mission to the Moon and deploy research stations on Mars under an ambitious plan presented to ...
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