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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Oct 08, 2009 
Astronomers at the some of the best ground-based telescopes in southern Arizona plan to observe two lunar impacts at 4:30 a.m. and 4:34 a.m. Arizona time Friday, Oct. 9. NASA is scheduled to fire a two-ton Centaur rocket, and four minutes later its shepherding spacecraft, into a crater at the moon's south pole for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission, known as LCROSS ... read more
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 08, 2009The European Space Agency's SMART-1 team has released an updated image of the future impact site of NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), after the LCROSS team announced a new target last week. LCROSS will search for water ice on the Moon by making two impacts into a crater named Cabeus at the lunar South Pole. The impacts are scheduled for 11:31:19 UTC and 11:35:45 UTC ... more
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 08, 2009NASA is figuring out how to make water from moondust. Sounds like magic? "No magic--" says Ed Ethridge of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center "-- just microwaves. We're showing how microwaves can extract water from moondust by heating it from the inside out." The recent discovery of water on the Moon's surface has inspired researchers like Ethridge to rev up the development of technologies ... more 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 06, 2009Just imagine. A spaceship plunges out of the night sky, hits the ground and explodes. A plume of debris billows back into the heavens, leading your eye to a second ship in hot pursuit. Four minutes later, that one hits the ground, too. It's raining spaceships! Put on your hard hat and get ready for action, because on Friday, Oct. 9th, what you just imagined is really going to happen ... more 
Sunspot NM (SPX) Oct 06, 2009In the pre-dawn hours of Oct. 9, as many people in New Mexico are still asleep or barely stirring, a momentous event will be happening in outer space that could help define future space travel. That event is a rocket smashing into a permanently shadowed crater on the moon, and New Mexico State University astronomers have a front-row seat on all the action. NMSU is taking part in a ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Sept 29, 2009China has completed a high-resolution, three-dimensional map of the entire surface of the moon, in an important step towards a future lunar landing, an expert involved in the project said Tuesday. After putting its first man into space in 2003 - only the third nation to do so - China is aiming to launch an unmanned rover on the moon's surface by 2012 and a manned mission to the moon by aro ... more 
Mumbai, India (SPX) Sep 28, 2009India's moon mission has proved to be quite economical and cost much less compared to what other countries have spent on their projects, mission director M Annadurai said here. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would continue to check costs in the Chandrayaan-II mission as well, he said. India's moon mission cost only about one sixth to one tenth of the cost of similar missions ... more 
New Delhi, India (XNA) Sep 28, 2009Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman Madhavan Nair on Friday claimed that it is possible to extract water from the Moon just a few hours after it was confirmed that water was present on the lunar surface. Offering a glimmer of hope to the scientific community that water found on the Moon could be used, Nair said, "It's possible to extract ... more |
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