News About Our Moon 15-MAR-10 en-us London (UPI) Mar 13, 2009 - Former NASA astronauts who have been on moon missions told the BBC they are unhappy with U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to delay future such missions.]]> Beijing, China (XNA) Mar 09, 2010 - A new heavy-thrust carrier rocket is under scientific research, with the goal of sending astronauts to the moon, scientists said.]]> Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 09, 2010 - More than 100 student teams from around the globe will drive their specially crafted lunar rovers through a challenging course of rugged, moon-like terrain at NASA's 17th annual Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, Ala., April 9-10.]]> Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2010 - Shortly after the Moon formed, an asteroid smacked into its southern hemisphere and gouged out a truly enormous crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, almost 1,500 miles across and more than five miles deep.]]> Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 05, 2010 - Shortly after the Moon formed, an asteroid smacked into its southern hemisphere and gouged out a truly enormous crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, almost 1,500 miles across and more than five miles deep.]]> Washington DC (SPX) Mar 02, 2010 - Using data from a NASA radar that flew aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists have detected ice deposits near the moon's north pole. NASA's Mini-SAR instrument, a lightweight, synthetic aperture radar, found more than 40 small craters with water ice. The craters range in size from 1 to 9 miles (2 to15 km) in diameter.]]> Washington (AFP) March 1, 2010 - A US radar that launched into space aboard an Indian spacecraft has detected craters filled with ice on the moon's north pole, NASA scientists said Monday.]]> Baltimore MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2010 - Some scientists will go anywhere for a proper test, including the mouth of a (sleeping) Hawaiian volcano. Dr. Inge Ten Kate, a University of Maryland Baltimore County research assistant, led an expedition into a cinder cone atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to test the prototype for an instrument that will be a miniature laboratory to discover the composition of rocks and atmospheres on moons, asteroids, and planets across the solar system.]]> Bangalore, India (PTI) Feb 24, 2010 - After a successful maiden moon mission, India will initiate the process for its sequel Chandrayaan-II, President Pratibha Patil said.]]> Beijing (AFP) Feb 21, 2010 - China aims to land its first astronauts on the moon within a decade at the dawn of a new era of manned space exploration -- a race it now leads thanks to the US decision to drop its lunar programme.]]>