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Researchers find evidence of ice content at the moon's south pole
Jun 21, 2012 (SPX)
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 ...
Nanoparticles found in moon glass bubbles explain weird lunar soil behaviour
Jun 14, 2012 (SPX)
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 ...
UA Lunar-Mining Team Wins National Contest
May 31, 2012 (SPX)
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 a...
NASA Lunar Spacecraft Complete Prime Mission Ahead of Schedule
May 30, 2012 (SPX)
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 Labo...
NASA Offers Guidelines To Protect Historic Sites On The Moon
May 25, 2012 (SPX)
NASA and the X Prize Foundation of Playa Vista, Calif., announced Thursday the Google Lunar X Prize is recognizing guidelines established by NASA to protect lun...
Neil Armstrong gives rare interview - to accountant
May 24, 2012 (AFP)
The famously private Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has been coaxed into giving a rare interview -- with an Australian accountant. The 82-ye...
Perigee Super Moon On May 5-6
May 04, 2012 (SPX)
The full Moon has a reputation for trouble. It raises high tides, it makes dogs howl, it wakes you up in the middle of the night with beams of moonlight stealin...
India's second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 to wait
Apr 30, 2012 (IANS)
India's second Moon mission Chandrayaan-2, slated for 2014, will have to wait till the country's space agency flies two of its heavy rocket - Geosynchronous Sat...
Russia to Send Manned Mission to Moon by 2030
Apr 30, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
Russia is planning to send a manned mission to the moon by 2030, Russian space agency Roscosmos said on its website on Friday. According to the Russian space st...
European Google Lunar X Prize Teams Call For Science Payloads
Apr 30, 2012 (SPX)
The race for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE is creating science opportunities for European lunar researchers. Four teams competing for the competition pre...
NASA Contract to Astrobotic Technology Investigates Prospecting for Lunar Resources
Apr 30, 2012 (SPX)
Astrobotic Technology Inc. has announced a NASA contract to determine whether its polar rover can deploy an ice-prospecting payload to the Moon. The ice could y...
Moon Express Delivers Lunar Mission Design Report for mining the Moon for precious resources
Apr 27, 2012 (SPX)
Moon Express has announced that it has successfully delivered a mission design package to NASA under its Innovative Lunar Demonstration Data (ILDD) Program, pro...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Brings 'Earthrise' to Everyone
Apr 25, 2012 (SPX)
Imagine yourself in orbit, your spacecraft flying backward with its small window facing down toward the surface of the moon. You peer out, scouring the ash-colo...
Winners of 19th Annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race Announced
Apr 20, 2012 (SPX)
America's space agency has crowned its vehicular engineering victors at the close of the 19th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race at the U.S. Space and Rocket Cent...
Russian Space Agency eyes Moon explorations
Apr 18, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
Luna-Glob, a Moon-exploration program, will be a priority for the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) for the next 10 years, academician Lev Zeleny, direct...
Russia postpones Luna-Glob moon mission
Apr 12, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's Luna-Glob moon mission will see its first moon landing in 2015, a year later than originally planned, the Space Research Institute of the Russian Acade...
Russia Plans to Launch Lunar Rovers to Moon after 2020
Apr 09, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
Russia plans to send two lunar rovers to Moon after 2020 and a landing station after 2022 as the first steps to form the future manned lunar base there, the cou...
Russia to explore moon
Apr 07, 2012 (UPI)
Russian scientists said Saturday they plan to put two lunar rovers on the moon by 2020 and a landing station after 2022. The efforts are for someday having a ma...
Earth's Other Moons
Apr 04, 2012 (SPX)
Earth usually has more than one moon, according to a team of astronomers from the University of Helsinki, the Paris Observatory and the University of Hawaii at ...
Flying Formation - Around the Moon at 3,600 MPH
Mar 29, 2012 (JPL)
The act of two or more aircraft flying together in a disciplined, synchronized manner is one of the cornerstones of military aviation, as well as just about any...
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