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At 82, NASA pioneer Sue Finley still reaching for the stars
Jul 16, 2019 (AFP)
Now 82, she is one of NASA's longest-serving women, starting out as one of its "human computers," whose critical yet long-hidden contributions to the space prog...
NASA chief: 'Moon is the proving ground, Mars is the destination'
Jul 15, 2019 (UPI)
During a press conference Monday, Bridenstine said he and the president are on the same page regarding NASA's primary objectives. "Mars is the goal, the preside...
India scrubs Moon mission launch one hour before liftoff
Jul 15, 2019 (AFP)
The Chandrayaan-2 -- or Moon Chariot 2 -- mission is part of India's ambitious space programme, and its success would have propelled the South Asian nation into...
To the Moon and back: 50 years on, a giant leap into the unknown
Jul 14, 2019 (AFP)
It was July 20, 1969, and as the world followed the spacecraft's progress, it briefly lost radio contact with mission control in Houston. Then, as the lunar mod...
Five ethical questions for how we choose to use the Moon
Jul 13, 2019 (The Conversation)
But we need to establish guidelines to prevent unethical behaviour on the Moon, particularly regarding the use of natural resources and off-planet labour. How h...
Maxar teams with Dynetics on power and propulsion element for Lunar Gateway
Jul 13, 2019 (SPX)
As recently announced, Maxar was selected by NASA to build and perform a spaceflight demonstration of the power and propulsion element spacecraft. The spacecraf...
Solving combustion instability and saving America's first trips to the Moon
Jul 13, 2019 (SPX)
Bigger rockets with more powerful engines than the small Mercury-Redstone rocket, that launched the first two Americans into space, were needed. Bigger engines ...
India aims to become 4th nation to land on moon
Jul 13, 2019 (SPX)
India's space agency is making final preparations over the next three days before liftoff from an island in the Bay of Bengal, officials said. The spacecraft wi...
Who owns the moon? A space lawyer answers
Jul 13, 2019 (The Conversation)
When people hear for the first time that I am a lawyer practicing and teaching something called "space law," the question they ask most frequently, often with a...
Low-cost moon mission puts India among lunar pioneers
Jul 12, 2019 (AFP)
Just five days before the 50th anniversary of man's first lunar landing, Chandrayaan-2 -- or Moon Chariot 2 -- will blast off from a tropical island off Andhra ...
The machine that made the Moon missions possible
Jul 12, 2019 (AFP)
Such a failure was not an option during the Apollo missions, the first time ever that a computer was entrusted with handling flight control and life support sys...
Modeling early meteorite impacts on the moon
Jul 11, 2019 (SPX)
Despite their common origin there are curious differences between the Earth and moon. Elements such as gold, iridium, platinum and palladium (known as highly si...
China's Chang'e-4 probe switches to dormant mode
Jul 11, 2019 (XNA)
The scientific instruments on the Chang'e-4 probe worked well during the seventh lunar day after the probe made the first-ever soft-landing on the Von Karman Cr...
The Moon now has hundreds of artifacts. Should they be protected?
Jul 11, 2019 (AFP)
Some experts are calling to grant them heritage status to protect them from future tourists and human activity. It all started on September 13, 1959 when Soviet...
How conspiracy theories followed man to the Moon
Jul 08, 2019 (AFP)
Millions of people across the world still believe that no one has ever walked on the Moon, and that the images that NASA broadcast in July 1969 were shot in a H...
Astrobotic Awarded $5.6 Million NASA Contract to Deliver Autonomous Moon Rover
Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)
The 13 kilogram autonomous rover known as MoonRanger, is being developed to provide high fidelity 3D maps of the Moon's surface in areas such as polar regions a...
How visions of the Moon inspired centuries of storytellers
Jul 08, 2019 (AFP)
But even after they transformed fantasy into fact, it is a place that continues to capture the imagination of storytellers, as it has for centuries. Literature,...
Scientists scramble to build payload for 2021 lunar landing
Jul 03, 2019 (SPX)
NASA announced on Monday that it has selected 12 scientific payloads to fly aboard three lunar landing missions within the next few years. One of them will be t...
New camera system to offer high-resolution images, video of lunar landing
Jul 03, 2019 (SPX)
The Heimdall camera system project, headed by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist R. Aileen Yingst, consists of four color cameras and a DVR to store i...
NASA tests launch-abort system for moon-mission capsule
Jul 02, 2019 (AFP)
The three-minute exercise at Cape Canaveral in Florida aimed to test in almost real-life conditions the evacuation of astronauts from the capsule in the event o...
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