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Flags at half mast across US for Armstrong funeralWashington (AFP) Aug 31, 2012 Flags flew at half staff across the United States on Friday as family, friends and fellow astronauts gathered in Ohio to remember Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. Four US Navy F-18 fighter jets flew in a solemn "missing man" formation over the funeral at a private Cincinnati golf club in honor of Armstrong, commander of the historic Apollo 11 mission, who died Saturday aged 82. "Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon paved the way for others to be the 'first' to step foot on a ... read more |
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 Walls of Lunar Crater May Hold Patchy Ice, LRO Radar Finds Small patches of ice could make up at most five to ten percent of material in walls of Shackleton crater. Scientists using the Mini-RF radar on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) have estimat ... more | .. |
 New research eclipses existing theories on moon formation The Moon is believed to have formed from a collision, 4.5 billion years ago, between Earth and an impactor the size of Mars, known as "Theia." Over the past decades scientists have simulated this pr ... more | .. |
 Russia's moonshot hope 'not a dream' Russia has proposed a joint project with Kazakhstan and Ukraine to build a heavy rocket capable of launching manned missions to the Moon. It believes this project could be accomplished within three ... more | .. |
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 A "Blue Moon" Heralds the Harvest Heralding the change in season, a full Moon will rise in the eastern twilight sky on August 31st for the second time this month (the first time came on August 1st). Many people use the expression "o ... more | .. |
 Signing out: Armstrong autographs under hammer A series of autographs of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, will go under the hammer this week with auctioneers wondering if the sky's the limit for the prized signatures. ... more | .. |
 Apollo 11 capsule stirs Neil Armstrong memories, tributes Coming upon the Apollo 11 capsule at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on Monday, Matt Hehman did something that would have been unimaginable when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon 33 years ago. ... more | .. |
 Tributes pour in for 'man on the moon' Armstrong Tributes poured in Sunday following the death of Neil Armstrong, the humble US astronaut whose "small step" on the moon captivated the world and came to embody the wonder of space exploration. ... more |
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 Neil Armstrong: First man on the moon With one small step off a ladder, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, making him the most lauded American of the Cold War space race. ... more | .. |
 US astronaut Neil Armstrong dead at 82 Famed US astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the moon, has died following complications from cardiovascular surgery, his family said Saturday. He was 82. ... more | .. |
 Obama hails 'great American hero' Neil Armstrong A "deeply saddened" President Barack Obama on Saturday hailed late US space pioneer Neil Armstrong as one of the nation's greatest ever heroes, for having inspired a generation to reach for the stars. ... more | .. |
 Chinese firm to send Spanish rover to moon in 2014 China Great Wall Industry Corporation will send a Spanish rover to the moon in June 2014, according to the Galactic Suite company which heads the "Barcelona Moon Team" that is competing in the Googl ... more |
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  Fantastic Phobos Some 135 years after its discovery, Mars' largest moon Phobos is seen in fantastic detail - and in 3D - in an image taken by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft as it passed just 100 km by. This vie ... more | .. |
 LRO Spectrometer Detects Helium in Moon's Atmosphere Scientists using the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have made the first spectroscopic observations of the noble gas helium in the tenuous atmosphere su ... more | .. |
 NASA's 'Mighty Eagle' Robotic Prototype Lander Flies Again at Marshall The "Mighty Eagle," a NASA robotic prototype lander, is soaring high again for a series of tests being conducted at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Since its last round ... more | .. |
  NASA Goddard Team to Demonstrate Miniaturized Spectrometer-on-a-Chip The Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) is big. It's powerful and it discovered, among other things, that Saturn's mysterious moon Enceladus was one of the very few worlds in the solar system tha ... 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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 Roscosmos Announces Tender for Moon Rocket Design The Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) announced a ten-million ruble ($300,000) tender on Thursday to develop a blueprint of a heavy rocket-carrier that would be capable of carrying manned spacecraft ... more | .. |
US flags still on the moon, except one: NASA A series of American flags that were planted on the moon during visits by Apollo astronauts some four decades ago are still standing, except for one, a NASA scientist has said. ... more | .. |
  Giant Ice Avalanches On Iapetus Provide Clue To Extreme Slippage Elsewhere In The Solar System "We see landslides everywhere in the solar system," says Kelsi Singer, graduate student in Earth and planetary sciences in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, "but Saturn's icy ... more | .. |
 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 |
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 Another Small Step for Mankind 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 res ... 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 | .. |
 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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 |
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