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NASA Finds Millions of Tons of Water Ice in Lunar Craters, No Moon Bombing...
Water on the Moon This image of the lunar south pole – snapped by the LRO late last year – identifies several craters including Cabeus A, in which water was discovered last year. Similar craters on...
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Small 'Umbrella' of Magnetism Shields Part of Moon from Solar Winds, a Good...
The Inhospitable Lunar Surface Maybe the moon isn't as inhospitable a place as we first thought when we landed there more than 40 years ago. First we found surface water at the lunar south pole, and...
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'Moon Bombing' Data Shows South Pole Crater is Wetter Than Some Parts of Earth
Cabeus Shortly After Impact Science/AAAS When NASA "bombed" the moon back in October there was a lot of fanfare leading up to a visually anticlimactic live Webcast of the event. But a series of papers...
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New Bill Directs NASA Back to the Moon By 2022, With Permanent Habitation In...
Buzz Aldrin Salutes the Flag NASA After a rollercoaster year for NASA, it looks like Congress isn't quite done tinkering with the space agency's future. A return to the moon is back on the table after...
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Former Apollo Astronaut and Senator Says Mining Helium on the Moon Could...
Back to the Moon? Apollo 11. Former Apollo astronaut Harrison Schmitt thinks we should go back to the moon, this time to tap its reserves of helium-3. NASA Former astronaut, Apollo moonwalker,...
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In Midst of Budget Woes, NASA Contemplates a Manned Waypoint In Orbit Near...
An Orion Capsule Directs Traffic on the Moon From the Far Side in this Concept Lockheed Martin via SPACEThe NASA budget that went to Capitol Hill yesterday dashed any plans to initiate new Mars...
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Video: NASA is Testing a Water Prospecting Lunar Rover to Scout Future Moon...
RESOLVE NASA/Dmitri Gerondidakis While NASA waits with bated breath for the Curiosity rover's arrival on the Martian surface, engineers at NASA and the Canadian Space Agency are already at work...
View ArticleJapan Plans a Moon Base by 2020, Built by Robots for Robots
America may have eighty-sixed its moon base ambitions, but the Japanese have no plans to let perfectly good lunar real estate go to waste. An ambitious $2.2 billion project…
View ArticleEuropean Robotic Lunar Lander to Touch Down on Lunar Surface by 2020
Though NASA has abandoned its moon base ambitions, that doesn't mean we won't see a permanent lunar presence sometime in the foreseeable future. Japan has plans to establish…
View Article'Moon Bombing' Data Shows South Pole Crater is Wetter Than Some Parts of Earth
When NASA "bombed" the moon back in October there was a lot of fanfare leading up to a visually anticlimactic live Webcast of the event. But a series of papers publishing…
View ArticleNew Bill Directs NASA Back to the Moon By 2022, With Permanent Habitation In...
After a rollercoaster year for NASA, it looks like Congress isn't quite done tinkering with the space agency's future. A return to the moon is back on the table after a Florida congressman introduced a...
View ArticleFormer Apollo Astronaut and Senator Says Mining Helium on the Moon Could...
Former astronaut, Apollo moonwalker, geologist and former Senator Harrison Schmitt has a modest plan to solve the worldâs energy problems. All we need is $15 billion over…
View ArticleChina's Moon Ambitions: Rover in 2013, Bring Home Samples in 2017, and a...
A Chinese official kicked off an international robotics conference in Shanghai this week by confirming China plans to send a robot to the moon within two years and aims to…
View ArticleThe Moon Should Be the 51st State, and Other Space Dreams From Newt Gingrich
At the sunset of Newt Gingrichâs putative presidency, the moon would be the 51st state, colonized by permanent American settlers. Tourists would honeymoon in low-Earth…
View ArticleIn Midst of Budget Woes, NASA Contemplates a Manned Waypoint In Orbit Near...
The NASA budget that went to Capitol Hill yesterday dashed any plans to initiate new Mars exploration missions in the next few years, but amid the belt-tightening SPACE…
View ArticleVideo: NASA is Testing a Water Prospecting Lunar Rover to Scout Future Moon...
While NASA waits with bated breath for the Curiosity roverâs arrival on the Martian surface, engineers at NASA and the Canadian Space Agency are already at work testing a …
View ArticleStarchitect Norman Foster To Design A 3-D Printed Lunar Base
_ Click to launch the photo gallery_ The first real lunar base should look literally out-of-this-world cool. Maybe it will look as spacey as Apple's new campus, or Virgin's…
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Moon Express ‘lunar outpost’ looks gorgeous, but don’t get too excited yet
Space The company hopes to put robots on the moon’s South Pole by 2020 “Outpost” is a bit of a strong word, but here's what the company has in mind. Read on.
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Here's our original coverage of Apollo 11
Science In the July 1969 issue of Popular Science, a famous rocket scientist narrated the first moon landing. Forty-seven years ago, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first...
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One weird thing about eclipses you’ve probably never noticed
Space Some drawings to explain the August eclipse's trajectory. If the moon rises in the east and sets in the west, why will the shadow of the eclipse move from west to east? Read on.
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