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A Softer Landing on the MoonSydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 15, 2010 Getting something onto the surface of the Moon intact is always a challenge. Gravity pulls you in. There's no atmosphere to slow you down. Parachutes don't work. Your only hope is to use thrusters to slow down, and gently touch the surface. This approach has worked fine for soft landers in the past. All you need is a clear, safe place to land. What, then, do you do when the ground beneath you is not so easy to navigate? The LCROSS mission's hard impact into a polar crater on the Moon has yie ... read more |
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 Collision Spills New Moon Secrets Scientists led by Brown University are offering the first detailed explanation of the crater formed when a NASA rocket and spacecraft slammed into the Moon last October and information about the com ... more |
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NASA Awards Contract To Team FREDNET Google Lunar X PRIZE Contender Team FREDNET has been awarded a NASA Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) contract at the maximum government purchase value of $10.01 million. As a recipient of this ILDD contract, Team FREDN ... more | .. |
 LRO Supports Historic Lunar Impact Mission The lunar rocks brought back to the Earth by the Apollo astronauts were found to have very little water, and to be much drier than rocks on Earth. An explanation for this was that the Moon formed bi ... more | .. |
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 NASA Awards Contracts For Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data NASA has awarded Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) contracts to six companies for the purchase of technical data resulting from industry efforts to develop vehicle capabilities and demonst ... more | .. |
  China Eyes Extended Mission Beyond Moon The mysteries surrounding the mission of China's Chang'e 2 moon probe are gradually being solved. Prior to the launch, China was exceptionally shy about revealing many details of the mission, includ ... more | .. |
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 Lunar Probe And Space Exploration Is China's Duty To Mankind A chief designer with China's second lunar probe project has said that the country's lunar pursuit, while lagging behind Russia and the United States for more than 40 years, is still important becau ... more |
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 Saturn's Icy Moon May Keep Oceans Liquid With Wobble Saturn's icy moon Enceladus should not be one of the most promising places in our solar system to look for extraterrestrial life. Instead, it should have frozen solid billions of years ago. Located ... more | .. |
 Four Chinese Lunar Landers Mooted For years, the official line on China's robot lunar program was a simple case of 1-2-3. There would be an orbiter (Chang'e 1) followed by a lander bearing a rover (Chang'e 2), and finally, a robot l ... more | .. |
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 Chang'e-2 Heads For Moon China's second unmanned lunar probe, Chang'e-2, was maneuvered to correct its trajectory on the earth-moon transfer orbit Saturday. Scientists successfully activated the attitude control engines ... more |
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 China Scouts Moon Landing Sites China's second lunar mission, Chang'e 2, will perform several tasks during its flight. Some of these are purely scientific, aimed at helping us to understand the Moon and the space around it. ... more | .. |
 NASA official: Moon still matters NASA new direction of sending astronauts to the asteroids or Mars doesn't mean a return to the moon is out of the question, the U.S. agency's deputy head says. NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Gar ... more | .. |
 Rocket Carrying China's Second Lunar Probe Almost Ready For Launch A rocket carrying China's second unmanned lunar probe, Chang'e II, is at its final stage of preparation before launch, the Xichang Satellite Launch Center (XSLC) in southwestern Sichuan Province sai ... more | .. |
 China To Launch Second Lunar Probe China will launch its second lunar probe, Chang'e II, at an appropriate time between Oct. 1 and 3, the Xichang Satellite Launch Center (XSLC) in southwest China's Sichuan Province announced Wednesda ... more |
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