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Moon looms bright over Republican debateJacksonville, Florida (AFP) Jan 26, 2012 Republican White House hopefuls set their sights high Thursday with some vowing they would shoot for the moon and restore American supremacy in space if elected. "I do not want to be the country that having gotten to the moon first, turned around, said, it doesn't really matter, let the Chinese dominate space, what do we care?" former House speaker Newt Gingrich said. "I think that is a path of national decline and I am for America being a great country, not a country in decline," he added to ch ... read more |
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 Rocket Man: Gingrich peddles space dreams in Florida Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has stirred strong passions by claiming he will establish a permanent moon base by 2020 if elected, but experts say he is living on another planet. ... more | .. |
  The two faces of Titan's dunes A new analysis of radar data from the international Cassini spacecraft has revealed regional variations amongst Titan's sand dunes. The result yields new clues to the giant moon's climatic and geolo ... more | .. |
  U.S. Denies Link to Mars Mission Failure A spokesperson at the Department of State denied information that the crash of the Phobos-Grunt probe to the Martian moon Phobos could have been caused by a powerful electromagnetic emission from a ... more | .. |
 Fusion: X-ray laser zaps solid to 2 million degrees ISRO mum on Nair's outburst, scientists dismayed Mars Rover Finds New Evidence of Water Cassini's radar observes Titan's tropical dune fields Toronto teens send Lego man into space: video Flights rerouted as massive solar storm slams Earth Opening of UK site producing the heart of Galileo |
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 Mimas And Dione Saturn's moon Mimas peeks out from behind the night side of the larger moon Dione in this Cassini image captured during the spacecraft's Dec. 12, 2011, flyby of Dione. Dione is 698 miles, or 1 ... more | .. |
Roscosmos Revives Permanent Moon Base Plans Russian Space Agency Roscosmos is in talks with its European and U.S. partners on the creation of manned research bases on the Moon, the agencies chief, Vladimir Popovkin, said on Thursday. "W ... more | .. |
 Russia talks of permanent moon base Russia's space agency Roscosmos says it is in talks with European and U.S. partners about creating permanent manned research bases on the moon. ... more | .. |
 Montana Students Pick Winning Names for Moon Craft Twin NASA spacecraft that achieved orbit around the moon New Year's Eve and New Year's Day have new names, thanks to elementary students in Bozeman, Mont. Their winning entry, "Ebb and Flow," was se ... more |
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 US to send floating commando base to Mideast Sanctions take their toll on ordinary Iranians Protest against greater US role in Philippines Progress seen in moves towards Afghan peace talks US military reaches further into Asia Emirates 'has security links with Israel' Iran: New negotiations on way? Thales Australia and Steyr to work closer US seeks greater military ties with China US concerned about fate of Uighurs in China Rockets hit Pakistan academy near bin Laden home US says French pullout from Afghanistan coordinated US officials set N. Korea talks in Moscow, Seoul Suicide car bomb outside Baghdad hospital kills 31 | .. |
  Russia to Test if US Radar Caused Failed Space Probe Russia says the failure of its space probe that was intended to travel to a moon of Mars could have been caused by radiation from U.S. radars. Space official Yuri Koptev said Tuesday he will h ... more | .. |
 Students rename NASA moon probes Ebb and Flow A pair of unmanned NASA spacecraft that are orbiting the Moon were renamed Ebb and Flow on Tuesday by a middle school class in Montana, the US space agency announced. ... more | .. |
 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP reveals lunar surface features New maps produced by the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal features at the Moon's northern and southern poles in regions that lie in perpetual darkness. L ... more | .. |
 Lunar orbiter spots moisture locations NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed features at the moon's northern and southern poles in regions that lie in perpetual darkness, researchers said. ... more |
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  Photographing the International Space Station from Your Own Backyard Photographing the International Space Station seems like something that could be done only from space, but taking a picture from your own backyard actually is easier than you might think. If y ... more | .. |
'Mini moons' may surround Earth Hundreds of tiny moons may be orbiting Earth, as small asteroids get snagged by gravity and spend some time in orbit around the planet, Finnish researchers say. ... more | .. |
Rare Moon mineral found in Australia A mineral brought back to Earth by the first men on the Moon and long thought to be unique to the lunar surface has been found in Australian rocks more than one billion years old, scientists said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Ecliptic Shoots for Moon at End of a Record Year The year 2011 was a record year of launch activity for Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation and its RocketCam product family, with a total of 17 RocketCam systems successfully launched-12 onboard variou ... more |
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 Flood survivors rebuild in Philippine danger zones Pros and cons of U.K. climate change eyed Iraq water crisis could stir ethnic clash Barclays tops roll of shame at Davos Troubled Global AIDS fund shifts focus ten years on Five dead in southeast Europe snowstorms Drone discovers 'river of blood' in Texas Arabia saw first humans out of Africa Lebanon activists fight to curb animal trafficking, abuse Protesters offer to return PM's shoe N.Z. quake bill to approach $25 bn: central bank Five Japan committees keep no disaster records Another Tibetan shot dead by China police: rights groups New AU headquarters marks strong China-Africa ties | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Helps Nasa Place Two Spacecraft Into Lunar Orbit Both of NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft were successfully inserted into orbit around the Earth's moon. The mission will analyze the internal structure and gr ... more | .. |
Two NASA probes both in lunar orbit The second of two NASA lunar probes on a mission to study the Moon's inner core so scientists can better understand the origins of planets went into orbit Sunday as planned, the US space agency said. ... more | .. |
 NASA's Twin Grail Spacecraft Reunite in Lunar Orbit The second of NASA's two Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft has successfully completed its planned main engine burn and is now in lunar orbit. Working together, GRAIL-A and ... more | .. |
  How to See the Best Meteor Showers of the Year Whether you're watching from a downtown area or the dark countryside, here are some tips to help you enjoy these celestial shows of shooting stars. Those streaks of light are really caused by tiny s ... more |
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 Aristarchus Spectacular! The Aristarchus plateau is one of the most geologically diverse places on the Moon: a mysterious raised flat plateau, a giant rille carved by enormous outpourings of lava, fields of explosive volcan ... more | .. |
 Moon mission on the horizon Preliminary research on a "giant leap" to the moon has been included in the government's plans for the next five years, according to a white paper issued on Thursday. The white paper, China's Space ... more | .. |
First of NASA's GRAIL Spacecraft Enters Moon Orbit The first of two NASA spacecraft to study the moon in unprecedented detail has entered lunar orbit. NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-A spacecraft successfully completed ... more | .. |
Twin Spacecraft on Final Approach for Moon Orbit NASA's twin spacecraft to study the moon from crust to core are nearing their New Year's Eve and New Year's Day main-engine burns to place the duo in lunar orbit. Named Gravity Recovery And Interior ... more |
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 Spain cuts subsidies for clean energy 'We care about every worker': Apple CEO Mexican electricity output tied to growth Davos doubts center on EU, world economy Puerto Rico's pipeline plans on track? Backer: EU energy proposal has safeguards Venezuela ditching World Bank arbitration Rio summit must yield new model: Brazil minister Twitter faces censorship charges, blackout call Total says Iran tensions won't have big oil price impact Stanford aero-engineers debut open-source fluid dynamics design application Wind and Solar Farms Tackle the Vicissitudes of Weather Dominion and Lockheed Martin Announce Grid Side Energy Efficiency Solution White roofs to make for cooler Melbourne buildings | .. |
China to launch orbiters for lunar soft landing in next five years: white paper Beijing (XNA) Dec 30, 2011 China will launch orbiters for lunar soft landing, roving and surveying to implement the second stage of lunar exploration in next five years, a white paper said Thursday ... more | .. |
 Powerful Pixels Help Map The Apollo Zone Grayscale pixels - up close, they look like black, white or grey squares. But when you zoom out to see the bigger picture, they can create a digital photograph, like this one of our moon: For NASA ... more | .. |
 Cassini Images Titan and Dione Above Saturn Saturn's third-largest moon Dione can be seen through the haze of its largest moon, Titan, in this view of the two posing before the planet and its rings from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The no ... more | .. |
 Portraits of Saturn Moons Captured by Cassini NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its closest-ever pass over Saturn's moon Dione on Monday, Dec. 12, slaloming its way through the Saturn system on its way to tomorrow's close flyby o ... more |
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 Cassini to make closest apporach to Dione In an action-packed day and a half, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be making its closest swoop over the surface of Saturn's moon Dione and scrutinizing the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon ... more | .. |
 Peres promotes Israeli moon probe Israeli space enthusiasts are taking part in an international moon-probe competition. President Shimon Peres cut the ribbon Thursday on Space IL, a nonprofit group that will compete for the in ... more | .. |
  Solar Storms Could Sandblast the Moon Solar storms and associated Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) can significantly erode the lunar surface according to a new set of computer simulations by NASA scientists. In addition to removing a surpr ... more | .. |
Hundreds of NASA's moon rocks missing: audit Researchers have sticky fingers when it comes to NASA's moon rocks and meteorites, and hundreds of samples have gone missing after being loaned out by the US space agency, an audit said Thursday. ... more |
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