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Moon-Bound NASA Spacecraft Passes Major Preflight Tests
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 25, 2008Satellite Engineering teams are conducting final checkouts of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, that will take a significant step forward in the search for water on the moon. The mission's main objective is to confirm the presence or absence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater near a lunar polar region. A major milestone, thermal vacuum testing ... more NASA Study Provides Next Step To Establishing Lunar Outpost 
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 25, 2008NASA engineers and scientists completed a milestone review June 20 that will help determine the systems needed to return humans to the moon and establish a lunar outpost. The three-day Lunar Capability Concept Review capped a nine-month study led by the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington that incorporated science and exploration objectives earlier ... more Apollo Relic Reveals Its Secrets 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 24, 2008Imagine landing on the Moon, climbing down the ladder of your spacecraft, and looking around the harsh lunar landscape-to see another, older spacecraft standing only 200 yards away. That's exactly what happened in November 1969, when astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean stepped out of the Apollo 12 lunar module. There, within walking distance on the edge of a small crater, stood Surveyor 3 ... more Ocean On Enceladus May Be Short-Lived 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2008The tide may be changing for the ocean suspected under the icy shell of Enceladus. Recent research has shown that this small moon of Saturn does not produce enough heat in its present configuration to keep water from freezing down to its core. "There is no possible combination of parameters that allow for a thermally stable ocean," said James Roberts of ... more One Million Names To The Moon And Counting 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 23, 2008One million and counting! Did you say one million? That's how many names have been submitted to blast off on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft. Since May 1, NASA has invited the public to join the excitement of the first mission in NASA's exploration program to return humans to the moon by 2020. LRO, which is scheduled to launch later this year, will map the lunar ... more |
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Houston TX (SPX) Jun 13, 2008NASA has awarded a contract to Oceaneering International, for the design, development and production of a new spacesuit system. The spacesuit will protect astronauts during Constellation Program voyages to the International Space Station and, by 2020, the surface of the moon. The subcontractors to Oceaneering are Air-Lock Inc. of Milford, Conn., David Clark Co. of Worcester, Mass., Cimarro ... more Scientists Pioneer Method For Making Giant Lunar Telescopes 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 09, 2008Scientists working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., have concocted an innovative recipe for giant telescope mirrors on the Moon. To make a mirror that dwarfs anything on Earth, just take a little bit of carbon, throw in some epoxy, and add lots of lunar dust. "We could make huge telescopes on the moon relatively easily, and avoid the large expense of transporting ... more NASA Seeks Proposals For Lunar Science Research 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 09, 2008NASA is looking for the right stuff to further scientific knowledge about the moon. NASA's Science Mission Directorate, in cooperation with the agency's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, recently issued a Cooperative Agreement Notice seeking research projects for the NASA Lunar Science Institute. The institute is located at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. ... more Researchers To Upgrade Safety And Performance Of Rocket Fuel 
Amherst, MA (SPX) Jun 09, 2008Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have received a $1 million grant from the U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) to boost the safety and performance of fuel used in thousands of satellites, space vehicles, rockets and missiles. The UMass team will study the spray and combustion of gelled hypergolic propellants, formed from a fuel and an oxidizer that ignite spontaneously ... more |
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Kolkata (IANS) May 28, 2008The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to launch its first unmanned moon mission, Chandrayan-I, between October and December, a top official said yesterday in Kolkata. "We are hopeful of launching the spacecraft in the third quarter of 2008-09. The mission would be targeted to capture images of the lunar surface," ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair said. "The objectives of t ... more DLR Scientists Produce An Atlas Of Saturn's Moon Dione 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) May 29, 2008Like the cartographers of old, scientists working with images from the Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's icy airless moons have carefully crafted detailed maps that one day may guide future explorers across the surfaces of these remote bodies. A team of DLR scientists alongside colleagues from the Freie Universit�t Berlin has produced an atlas of Dione, a moon of Saturn. In charting the fract ... more The Lunar GRAIL 
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 27, 2008Meet MIT professor of physics Maria Zuber. She's dynamic, intelligent, intense, and she's on a quest for the Grail. No, not that Grail. Zuber is the principal investigator of the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory - "GRAIL" for short. It's a new NASA mission slated for launch in 2011 that will probe the moon's quirky gravity field. Data from GRAIL will help scientists understand forc ... more One Hundred Explosions On The Moon And Counting 
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 27, 2008Not so long ago, anyone claiming to see flashes of light on the Moon would be viewed with deep suspicion by professional astronomers. Such reports were filed under "L"...for lunatic. Not anymore. Over the past two and a half years, NASA astronomers have observed the Moon flashing at them not just once but one hundred times. "They're explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the Moon," explai ... more
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