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Protection for Moon, Mars astronauts eyedDarmstadt, Germany (UPI) Sep 18, 2012 Rocks on the Moon or Mars could be used to build shelters to possibly protect astronauts from dangerous cosmic radiation, European researchers say. German scientists working with the European Space Agency have tested how well stone slabs can protect against radiation, a release from the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research said Monday. The findings are important because astronauts would be more exposed to radiation because neither a magnetic field nor a thick atmosphere protects t ... read more |
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 Russia to start research base on the Moon According to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, Russian cosmonauts have gained great experience working in orbit and have conducted a large number of scientific experiments at the ISS. All ... more | .. |
 Remains of astronaut legend Neil Armstrong buried at sea The cremated remains of legendary American astronaut Neil Armstrong were scattered at sea Friday, in a ceremony aboard a US aircraft carrier paying final tribute to the first man to set foot on the moon, NASA said. ... more | .. |
 Memorial service honors 'man on the moon' Armstrong Top NASA officials, fellow astronauts, relatives and well-wishers paid a final tribute to Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, in a somber memorial ceremony Thursday in the US capital. ... more | .. |
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 Chandrayaan II may be delayed, says ISRO Chief India's quest for the moon, by the name of "Chandrayaan II," planned for 2013-14, may be delayed. Indicating this at a news conference organised after the successful launch of "PSLV-C21", the 100th ... more | .. |
First man on moon to be buried at sea: Armstrong family The first man on the moon will be buried at sea, a spokesman for Neil Armstrong's family said Thursday. ... more | .. |
Russian deputy PM proposes Moon station A top Russian official on Tuesday proposed setting up a space station on the Moon to revive Moscow's struggling space programme, a day after the prime minister ripped into its failures. ... more | .. |
  India: From Ferrying Rockets on Cycles to Eyeing Mars From the days of having a church as control room, the bishop's house as office, a bicycle as ferry, naked eyes to track the smoke plume at Thumba in Kerala, converting a toilet into a satellite data ... more |
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With Trump mum, last US-Russia nuclear pact set to end
India budget pledges record infrastructure and defence boost
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  Does Triton Have a Subsurface Ocean? Triton was discovered in 1846 by the British astronomer William Lassell, but much about Neptune's largest moon still remains a mystery. A Voyager 2 flyby in 1989 offered a quick peak at the satellit ... more | .. |
 NASA's GRAIL Moon Twins Begin Extended Mission Science NASA's twin, lunar-orbiting Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft began data collection for the start of the mission's extended operations. At 9:28 a.m. PDT (12:28 p.m. EDT) ye ... more | .. |
Flags at half mast across US for Armstrong funeral 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. ... more | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
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 |
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Sentinel 1 maps reveal flexible crust beneath Tibetan Plateau
Stable water tables help wetlands curb methane emissions
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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US contract vehicle to speed US made defense semiconductors into military systems
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. | .. | .. |
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