Man to live on the moon - “We’re going back, and this time we’re going to stay,” S. Pete Worden, director of NASA Ames, said in remarks opening the lunar science conference. “This is the first step in settling the solar system.”
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Articles in category 'Moon'
The implications of this effort are rather profound when you think of what this means from a private citizen-enthusiast level. It’s sad to see how much Google is doing to empower the user compared to what our government should be doing. One thing our government in this country has failed to do is […]
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) successfully captured a movie of the “Full Earth-Rise”*1 using the onboard High Definition Television (HDTV) of the lunar explorer “KAGUYA ” (SELENE) on April 6, 2008 (Japan Standard Time, JST, all the following dates and time are JST.) The KAGUYA is currently flying in […]
MIAMI (AFP) - NASA wants astronauts who will return to the moon to take one long step for mankind. The US space agency hopes to build moon bases that can house astronauts for stays of up to six months, with an intricate transportation and power system, Carl Walz, director of NASA’s Advanced Capabilities Division, […]
Last week, on a bright and unseasonably warm Friday afternoon, NASA dedicated its new Lunar Science Institute on the campus of its Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. The institute’s interim director, David Morrison, said it will create a scientific foundation for a “great burst of exploration” over the next decade.
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/space/2008/04/new-nasa-lunar-institute-opens-its.html
Selene, Japan’s lunar spacecraft and HD peeping Tom, keeps sending stunningly-detailed information from our crystal clear Moon to trashed Mother Earth.
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Great photo of the eclipse from last Wednesday, and a link to Celestia (a great opensource astronomy) and a link to some other astronomy related software materials.
On February 21, 2008 at Google’s headquarters, ten teams announce their intention to participate in Google’s Lunar X Prize competition. Google will award $30 million in prizes for the first two teams to land a robotic rover on the moon and send images and other data back home.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NzRbi3WPotM
http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/
