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December 15, 2009
Biosatellite To The Moon
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 15, 2009
If we hope to return astronauts to the Moon in the future, we need to carry out a lot of preparations. Sure, NASA and other agencies are working on hardware that could take us there. But we also need to investigate the potential impact of the Moon on the astronauts themselves. Biological studies of the lunar environment have barely been carried out. It's obvious that astronauts can survive ... read more

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Saturnian Satellite Iapetus Is Coated With Foreign Dust
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Is There Life On The Moon
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Views Of The World Under The Moon
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Researcher Delighted That LCROSS Confirms Lunar Prospector Findings
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Memory Foam Mattress Review & Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison

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Circumlunar Missions: The Missing Link
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 03, 2009
Much attention has been focused on plans by various nations to return astronauts to the Moon. At the moment, it doesn't seem that anyone will be landing there for at least another decade. America is revising its original plans for the Orion program, which calls for a return to lunar orbital missions and landings. Some alternatives would see astronauts orbiting the Moon without landing, and ... more

Chang'e-1 Has Blazed A New Trail In China's Deep Space Exploration
Shanghai, China (SPX) Dec 02, 2009
A huge amount of scientific data have been accumulated by the CE-1 lunar orbiter. Using laser altimeter data, Jinsong Ping and Qian Huang et al obtained improved 3D lunar topography, and based on this, they had made new discoveries (such as impact basins and volcanic deposit highlands) of some ancient topographic characteristics on the lunar surface. Chao Chen and Qing Liang et al found ... more

China To Launch Second Lunar Probe In 2010
Beijing, China (XNA) Nov 30, 2009
China will launch its second lunar probe, Chang'e-2, in October 2010, a top Chinese space scientist told China Daily on Thursday. The newspaper quoted Ye Peijian, chief designer of the nation's first moon probe, as saying that the second lunar orbiter will carry different payloads and orbit the moon in a different way. "It will orbit 100 km closer to the moon and be equipped with better ... more

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Lunar Water Probably Came From Comets


Prometheus Plays Tug Of War With One Of Saturn's Rings


Partial Gravity And The Moon
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Cuts To Human Spaceflight Program Harms Aerospace Workforce, US Economy, And National Security

NASA announces moon design competition

Japan's 'space beer' sparkles among drinkers

Martian Moon Duo

The Meandering Channels Of Mars

Opportunity Continues Investigation Of Marquette Island

Low Mass Planets May Be Common Around Nearby Stars

Superior Super Earths

UCF Space Experiment To Fly On New Rocket Ship

Science seeks to control the Casimir force

Nanotech Experiment To Weather The Trials Of Orbit

Better Control Of Carbon Nanotube Growth Promising For Future Electronics

AWI And DLR To Conduct Joint Health Research In The Antarctic

Vaccine Research To Continue On Atlantis Mission

Wyle Personnel Assist Important Studies On ISS

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More Indigenous Components In Second Moon Mission: ISRO
Coimbatore, India (PTI) Nov 25, 2009
Mylswamy Annadurai, Project Director of Chandrayan Mission II, ISRO, on Monday said that there would be more indigenous components in country's second moon mission. Annadurai was in the city to participate in the 30th convocation of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. Addressing the media on the sidelines of the function, Annadurai said: "This time we expect more indigenous components ... more

Vast Scope For Research On Moon
Coimbatore, India (PTI) Nov 25, 2009
The data gathered by Chandrayaan-I mission provides vast scope for research on the moon, a top ISRO scientist has said. India, through Chandrayaan, was the pioneer in discovering existence of water on moon and similarly there was possibility of existence of minerals, including titanium, on it, Chandrayaan project director Mylswamy Annadurai said here. On Chandrayaan-II, he said the ... more

Astronomy Question Of The Week: What Happens On The Moon During A Lunar Eclipse
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Nov 24, 2009
Nowadays, solar eclipses are seen as a fascinating natural phenomenon. In earlier times, people viewed them instead as something threatening, since the Sun provides us with light and heat, without which life on Earth could not flourish. However, the cause of solar eclipses is now generally known: On its orbit around the Earth, the Moon passes between Earth and Sun, causing darkness lasting ... more

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Cassini Sends Back Images Of Enceladus As Winter Nears


The Lunar Oasis


NASA 'Drops' Next Gen Robotic Lander During Autonomous Tests
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African frustration erupts at UN climate talks

ECOWAS chief calls for Guinea 'protection force'

Developing nations slam EU climate fund pledge

Toyota aims to roll out plug-in Prius in two years

China's BAIC agrees to buy some Saab assets

Stronger Chinese auto sales lift luxury German brands

Galaxy Collision Switches On Black Hole

Galaxy Collision Switches On Black Hole

A 200 Million Mile Long Lab Bench For Turbulence Research

Russia To Launch MIM1 Module To ISS Next Year

Russia Plans To Send 10 Spacecraft To ISS Next Year

SpaceX Begins NASA Astronaut Training For Dragon Spacecraft COTS Program

Shuttle Endeavour readied for a space trip

Space shuttle Atlantis lands back on Earth

Atlantis Ready For Landing Friday

ATK Successfully Ground Tests New Castor 30 Upper Stage Solid Rocket Motor

Virgin spaceship to take visitors into suborbital space

Steering The Ares Rockets On A Straight Path

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Distal Rampart Of Crater In Chryse Planitia

Chandrayaan Instrument Finds Magnetosphere Around Moon

LCROSS Finds Water On Moon

New Moon Sets Stage For Brilliant Leonids Meteor Shower

Radiation: The Moon's Greatest Menace

NASA Seeks Student Payloads For High-Flying Research Balloon

Chandrayaan-II Mission Over By 2012-13

Successful Flight Through Enceladus Plume

JAXA Releases KAGUYA (SELENE) Data Archives To The Public

Taking The Plunge: Cassini Soars By Enceladus

Robot Armada Might Scale New Worlds

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India Set To Join Exclusive Cryogenic Club

Kangaroos On The Moon

Detecting Life-Friendly Moons

Establish One Or More Self-Sustaining, Permanent Space Colonies

New ISRO Chief Highly Competent: Madhavan Nair

NASA Mission To Study Moon's Fragile Atmosphere

Mexico University Creates First Network Of Telescopes In Latin American

NASA Instruments Reveal Water Molecules On Lunar Surface

ISRO Seeks To Allay Concern Over Security

Teams Win At NASA National Lunar Robotics Competition

NASA'S LCROSS Captures All Phases Of Centaur Impact

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