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X PRIZE Announces Competitors For Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge
Santa Monica CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2007A real rocket race is on the horizon with the return of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge (NG-LLC) -- the centerpiece of the Wirefly X PRIZE Cup and Holloman Air and Space Expo. In the Challenge's second year, the number of teams competing for the $2 million purse has increased from four teams to nine. The NG-LLC, sponsored by NASA's Centennial Challenges Program, is designed to ... more Mirror, Mirror On The Moon -- The Most Powerful Telescope Of All 
Paris (AFP) June 20, 2007Desolate, airless and with no people around for hundreds of thousands of kilometers (miles), the Moon is a great place -- for astronomers, that is. Skywatchers have an enduring hope of one day building a lunar observatory, where gleamings from the earliest stars can be snared without the curse of man-made light pollution and Earth's atmospheric distortion. But making telescopic mirrors ... more China To Increase Payload Capacity Of Carrier Rockets 
Beijing (Xinhua) Jun 19, 2007China plans to develop a new generation of carrier rockets with an increased payload capacity in order to advance its lunar exploration program, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. The payload capacity of China's Long March series of carrier rockets will be increased from its current weight of 9.5 tons to 25 tons, an official with the corporation said. ... more Japan To Launch Lunar Orbiter On August 16 
Tokyo (AFP) June 13, 2007Japan will launch a lunar orbiter on August 16 to collect data for research of the moon's origin and evolution, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Wednesday. The probe will consist of a main unit, which will circulate 100 kilometres (60 miles) above the moon, and two small satellites, the agency said. It will be launched from the Space Centre on the isle of Tanegashima off the southern ... more Vignette Helps NASA Make Giant Leap To The Moon And Beyond 
Austin TX (SPX) Jun 11, 2007Vignette's Next-Generation Web solutions are helping NASA engineers and scientists connect and share information online, as the federal agency designs its next generation of space vehicles for the Constellation Program. The Constellation Program is responsible for developing crew exploration and launch vehicles that will send humans back to the moon and then to Mars. ... more |
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Washington (RIA Novosti) May 28, 2007Russia will not participate in joint lunar exploration with NASA, but will assist the U.S. with its shuttle program until 2015, a spokesman for the Russian space agency said. After U.S. President George W. Bush announced his Vision for Space Exploration in 2004, a plan for new manned lunar missions, the country's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) elaborated a program that ... more California Eco-Homes Offer Glimpse Of Lunar Future 
Hesperia (AFP) California, May 25, 2007They are eco-friendly, cost next to nothing to build, and in Nader Khalili's dreams, they might one day be housing the first settlers on the Moon. On a sun-baked fringe of arid California desert that in places resembles a lunar landscape, Khalili, an Iranian-born architect who came to the United States in 1971, proudly surveys his cluster of ceramic, domed homes. ... more First China Mission To Moon To Launch By Year End 
Beijing (Xinhua) May 22, 2007China was "losing no time" in preparing its first lunar orbiter, Chang'e I, which will most likely be launched in the second half of 2007, a space official said here on Sunday. "The moon probe project is the third milestone in China's space technology after satellite and manned spacecraft projects, and a first step for us in exploring deep space," said Sun Laiyan ... more Oresme Crater Show Many Signs Of The Early Lunar Heavy Bombardment 
Paris, France (ESA) May 22, 2007This image, taken by the Advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows the Oresme crater on the Moon. AMIE obtained this picture on 30 August 2006 - only 4 days before SMART-1's final impact on the lunar surface. It was taken from a distance of 1 100 kilometres over the surface, with a ground resolution of 110 metres per pixel. Oresme is located on the Moon's farside ... more |
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Burbank, CA (PRWEB) April 30, 2007Candy Feuer has developed a new design for a greenhouse on Mars. Her fellow students are working on lunar outposts and space exploration transfer vehicles as well as designs for other structures that would be habitable on the Martian surface. While most of their counterparts specialize in houses, apartments and skyscrapers, these students deal with the most extreme environments. And they a ... more US Rejected Russian Request For Joint Moon Program 
Moscow (AFP) April 29, 2007The head of Russia's space agency Sunday said the US has rebuffed an offer from Moscow to jointly explore the moon, while announcing a separate contract with NASA for nearly one billion dollars for the International Space Station. Roskosmos chief Anatoly Perminov was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency that Russia had proposed pooling resources to explore the moon ... more Longest Holiday In Space Ends As Russia Touts Lunar Tour Within Five Years 
Moscow (SPX) Apr 23, 2007As Russia's latest space tourist vovage ended, the Russia's Space Agency signaled it was ready to considering sending Russia's richest man, London-based Roman Abramovich, on a flight around the Moon for $300 million after 2010. "Some press reports have said Roman Abramovich has submitted his candidacy for flying around the Moon for $300 million," Anatoly Perminov, head of the agency, told ... more Back To The Moon For Some Reconnaissance 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 20, 2007Of the two luminaries that dominate our sky, it is the moon that is of particular interest to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) project. The LRO will travel to the moon in late fall 2008, mapping the surface to help pave the way for humans to return. It will help prepare us for extended surface exploration on the moon and for subsequent missions to Mars and other distant destinations. Lunar ... more
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