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Another Small Step for MankindBethesda MD (SPX) Jul 24, 2012 Last Friday, July 20th, was the 43rd anniversary of mankind's first extraterrestrial visit to another heavenly body. The moon. Apollo 11 was the result of decades of work by tens of thousands of researchers, scientists and engineers all over the world. The program was supported by the leaders of 72 countries. This event was probably mankind's single-most magnificent technological feat. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the two astronauts on the moon, but they represented all of humanity and its ... read more |
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 Russia starts building Moon spaceship, eyes Lunar base Russia has started building a spacecraft for manned Lunar missions with the first test scheduled in 2015, the project developer said Thursday. "The work has already started. The unmanned tests are s ... more | .. |
 Plans to revisit Moon impeded by financial difficulties Along with pure science, these plans include significant engineering advances in order to send rovers to the Moon, and return samples from its surface. Yet despite high ambitions, researchers are co ... more | .. |
 Russia says no manned moon shots till 2018 Russia's timetable for manned flights to the moon has been pushed back two more years with no launches until 2018, the head of Russia's space agency said. ... more | .. |
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  River networks on Titan point to a puzzling geologic history For many years, Titan's thick, methane- and nitrogen-rich atmosphere kept astronomers from seeing what lies beneath. Saturn's largest moon appeared through telescopes as a hazy orange orb, in contra ... more | .. |
  J-2X Engine With Nozzle Extension Goes the Distance NASA engineers conducted a 550-second test of the new J-2X rocket engine at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on July 13. The J-2X engine will power the upper-stage of a planned two-stage Space La ... more | .. |
  Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto A team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reporting the discovery of another moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The moon is estimated to be irregular in shape and 6 to 15 m ... more | .. |
 The Titanian Seasons Turn, Turn, Turn Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show a concentration of high-altitude haze and a vortex materializing at the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan, signs that the seasons are turning on Saturn's l ... more |
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BlackSky expands Gen 3 Assured deals with new defense customer
Raytheon advances next generation short range interceptor with ballistic test
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  Evidence for Mars Life Could Come From Phobos A mission to a martian moon could return with alien life, according to experts at Purdue University, but don't expect the invasion scenario presented by summer blockbusters like "Men in Black 3" or ... more | .. |
 Titan's tides point to hidden ocean Nothing like it has been seen before beyond our own planet: large tides have been found on Saturn's moon Titan that point to a liquid ocean - most likely water - swirling around below the surface. O ... more | .. |
 Houston Workshop Marks Key Step in Planning Future Mars Missions A recent workshop conducted for NASA by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, marked a key step in the agency's effort to forge a new Mars strategy in the coming decades. A report that ... more | .. |
  NASA chooses University professors for $151.7 million mission In 1971, NASA sent three astronauts who were University alumni to the moon as part of the Apollo 15 lunar mission. Now, three University professors have been chosen for a new NASA project, one that ... more |
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 ESA to catch laser beam from Moon mission In 2013, a NASA satellite will beam digital signals to an ESA receiving station fast enough to stream dozens of movies at once. The test will help to demonstrate the readiness of next-generation opt ... more | .. |
  Hubba-Hubble NASA has awarded University of Delaware astronomy professor Judi Provencal research time on the Hubble Space Telescope, and, as you might imagine, Provencal is over the moon about it. "The telescope ... more | .. |
  Arecibo Observatory Finds Asteroid 2012 LZ1 To Be Twice As Big As First Believed Using the planetary radar system at Arecibo Observatory, astronomers have determined that asteroid 2012 LZ1 is twice as large as originally estimated based on its brightness, and large enough to hav ... more | .. |
 Two NASA Visualizations Selected for Computers Graphics Showcase A NASA computer animation that shows how the sun's heat drives the Earth's swirling winds and ocean currents and a series that tours the lunar surface and the evolution of the moon are the scientifi ... more |
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Climate change speeds up destruction of key greenhouse gas
EUMETSAT extends role in DestinE digital twin infrastructure
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 Researchers Estimate Ice Content of Crater at Moon's South Pole NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned data that indicate ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in a crater located on the moon's south pole. The t ... more | .. |
 Researchers find evidence of ice content at the moon's south pole If humans are ever to inhabit the moon, the lunar poles may well be the location of choice: Because of the small tilt of the lunar spin axis, the poles contain regions of near-permanent sunlight, ne ... more | .. |
  New Gravitational Biology Lab Allows for Testing in Artificial Gravity NASA is expanding its existing capabilities for doing plant and animal tissue investigations on the International Space Station with the delivery of a new centrifuge scheduled for this summer. The c ... more | .. |
 China develops new rocket engine China announced Thursday that it has developed a new engine for its new generation of carrier rockets, making it the second in the world to harness such engine technologies. The 120-tonne liqu ... more |
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 Kepler Telescope star data creates musical melody Why stop at the dark side of the moon to make music when you can look thousands of light years into space? That's what a team of Georgia Tech researchers have done, using data from two stars in our ... more | .. |
 Cassini Sees Tropical Lakes on Saturn Moon NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spied long-standing methane lakes, or puddles, in the "tropics" of Saturn's moon Titan. One of the tropical lakes appears to be about half the size of Utah's Great Salt ... more | .. |
 Nanoparticles found in moon glass bubbles explain weird lunar soil behaviour A stunning discovery by QUT soil scientist Marek Zbik of nano particles inside bubbles of glass in lunar soil could solve the mystery of why the moon's surface topsoil has many unusual properties. D ... more | .. |
 Impact atlas catalogs over 635,000 Martian craters It's no secret that Mars is a beaten and battered planet - astronomers have been peering for centuries at the violent impact craters created by cosmic buckshot pounding its surface over billions of ... more |
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Heavy impurities reveal new link in quantum matter theory
Quark wakes reveal early universe plasma flowed like a liquid
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 Enceladus Plume is a New Kind of Plasma Laboratory Recent findings from NASA's Cassini mission reveal that Saturn's geyser moon Enceladus provides a special laboratory for watching unusual behavior of plasma, or hot ionized gas. In these recent find ... more | .. |
  Electric Moon Jolts the Solar Wind With the moon as the most prominent object in the night sky and a major source of an invisible pull that creates ocean tides, many ancient cultures thought it could also affect our health or state o ... more | .. |
 UA Lunar-Mining Team Wins National Contest In what's become a common theme in the past year, a team of University of Alabama students won a national championship. The latest championship came not on an athletic field, rather on a simulated l ... more | .. |
 NASA Lunar Spacecraft Complete Prime Mission Ahead of Schedule A NASA mission to study the moon from crust to core has completed its prime mission earlier than expected. The team of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, with twin prob ... more |
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  Partial Eclipse of the Strawberry Moon On June 4th, 2012, there's going to be a full Moon. According to Native American folklore it's the Strawberry Moon, so-called because the short season for harvesting strawberries comes during the mo ... more | .. |
 New Moon for India India's lunar exploration program seems to be on hold for the moment. The ambitious plan to land a rover on the Moon in a joint mission with Russia, followed in the future by a sample-return mission ... more | .. | .. |
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