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Centuries of Moon depictions on display in New York
Jul 01, 2019 (AFP)
The Met will unveil its "Apollo's Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography" on Wednesday, approximately two weeks before of the five-decade mark since the 1969 ...
Guardians of Apollo: the curators preserving the Moon mission's legacy
Jun 29, 2019 (AFP)
You can hardly tell they made a trip to the Moon and back 50 years ago. To their side is the slightly yellowed "Snoopy Cap" (formally known as a "communications...
China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 7th lunar day
Jun 28, 2019 (XNA)
The lander woke up at 9:45 a.m. Thursday, and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), awoke at 1:26 p.m. Wednesday. Both are in normal working condition, according t...
ESA testing lunar rescue device tested underwater at NASA's NEEMO 23
Jun 21, 2019 (ESA)
ESA's Lunar Evacuation System Assembly (LESA) is a pyramid-like structure designed to be deployed by a single astronaut in lunar gravity to rescue an incapacita...
NASA selects Caltech-led Lunar mission as SmallSat finalist
Jun 21, 2019 (SPX)
The Lunar Trailblazer would follow up on one of the most surprising discoveries of the late 2000s: the detection of water on the Moon's surface, long thought im...
NASA Reflects on Legacy of LRO as Moon-Orbiting Mission Reaches 10-Year Anniversary
Jun 19, 2019 (SPX)
The diverse suite of instruments aboard LRO include a laser altimeter that fires pulses of light about 28 times per second, creating one of the most accurate to...
Ions Beams and Atom Smashers Expose Secrets of Moon Rocks
Jun 19, 2019 (SPX)
Fifty years after the Apollo astronauts collected samples of Moon rocks and dust during their forays across the lunar landscape, there are still mysteries to be...
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter marks 10 years mapping Moon
Jun 19, 2019 (SPX)
In addition, LRO would map the polar regions and search for the presence of water ice. Its primary mission was to last only one year. LRO was launched from Cape...
Politics, lack of support, funding have foiled US plans to return to moon
Jun 18, 2019 (UPI)
Neither the United States nor any nation on Earth has sent a manned mission to the moon since NASA's Apollo 17 mission left in late 1972. While the space admini...
NASA to Partner with American Industry to Supply Artemis Moon Missions
Jun 17, 2019 (SPX)
The first logistics service to the orbital outpost is expected to deliver science, cargo and other supplies in support of the agency's new Artemis lunar explora...
Apollo moon rocks help transform understanding of the universe
Jun 16, 2019 (AFP)
What is certain is that the lunar samples first gathered by Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong nearly 50 years ago have helped transform our understanding of the cosmos...
'Moon Rock Hunter' on quest to track down Apollo gifts
Jun 16, 2019 (AFP)
Dozens of the "goodwill" moon rocks -- some only the size of a grain of rice, others as big as a marble -- have since gone missing, and Joseph Gutheinz Jr is on...
Womankind's giant leap: who will be the first female moonwalker?
Jun 15, 2019 (AFP)
More than fifty years after the end of the Apollo program, NASA plans to return to the Moon by 2024 as a "proving ground" to test the next generation of spacecr...
When the world stopped to watch Armstrong's moonwalk
Jun 14, 2019 (AFP)
Officially more than 500 million people gathered around their sets to watch him leap from the ladder of Apollo 11's Eagle landing craft and onto the surface of ...
Mission Control secures CSA grant to develop software for lunar exploration missions
Jun 13, 2019 (SPX)
"With ongoing programs such as NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Service, a new wave of commercial space exploration is about to break," said Dr. Michele Faragall...
India unveils spacecraft for moon-landing mission
Jun 12, 2019 (AFP)
The mission is India's second to the moon, and if successful it will put the nation in the league of the US, the former Soviet Union and China. Named Chandrayaa...
Mass anomaly detected under the moon's largest crater
Jun 12, 2019 (SPX)
"Imagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground. That's roughly how much unexpected mass we detected,...
Trump says NASA should stop talking about going back to the Moon
Jun 07, 2019 (AFP)
"For all the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - We did that 50 years ago," Trump tweeted from Air Force One while retur...
Arizona's Role in Mapping the Moon
Jun 06, 2019 (SPX)
When Gerard P. Kuiper founded the laboratory nine years earlier, in 1960, there was skepticism and a lack of interest in humans visiting the Moon. But reaching ...
Ascent Abort-2 Preparations 'A Really Good Test Run' For Artemis 1
Jun 06, 2019 (SPX)
The test paves the way for Artemis 2, the first flight of astronauts aboard Orion and the powerful new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on a mission to carry hu...
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