Astronomers have found the coldest spot in our solar system and it may be a little close for comfort. It's on our moon, right nearby. NASA's new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is making the first complete temperature map of the moon. It found that at the moon's south pole, it's colder than far away Pluto. The area is inside craters that are permanently shadowed so they never see sun.
NASA's weakened return-to-the-moon program got a lift Tuesday on Capitol Hill.
One of the options for future space exploration has been criticized as a "look but don't touch" strategy, but the flexible-path option may turn out to be NASA's best bet. Commentary by NBC News' James Oberg.
NASA will test the powerful first stage of its new Ares moon rocket Thursday, a milestone in a program that has already spent $7 billion for a rocket that astronauts may never use.
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- My first face-to-face meeting with the Soviet "moonsuit," built for a cosmonaut to wear while walking on the moon before Neil Armstrong, was in a dingy warehouse in an even dingier Upper East Side corner of Manhattan.
Forty years after the Apollo 11 astronauts made their historic lunar landing, the rocks they collected are still helping researchers learn more about the moon, the solar system, even about how life on Earth began.
Google Inc. is offering a more wide-ranging view of the Moon, 40 years after humans first landed there.
- As the world celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first human footprint on the moon, retellings of the Apollo 11 story often note that Neil Armstrong flubbed the word “a” in his famous line, “That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
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Former Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin says NASA should set its sights on a bigger target in the future: Mars.
When Neil Armstrong first spoke from the moon, he said one thing and people on Earth heard another. What the world heard was grammatically flubbed: "That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong insists he said: "That's one small step for 'a' man." It's just that people just didn't hear it.
In the 40 years since Apollo 11, some of the key players, most notably Neil Armstrong, have steered clear of the increasingly bright glare of the moonlight cast by the historic lunar landing. Others have embraced it. Almost all have written books detailing not only themselves but the glory days of space.
Most Americans have never known a world where man hasn't been to the moon.
The measure of what humanity can accomplish is a size 9 1/2 bootprint.
On July 22, 1969, barely 48 hours after a human being first stepped onto the moon's surface, a community in Pittsburgh's western suburbs called Moon Township had a parade, as suburban communities do.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Neil Armstrong moved slowly down the ladder. Getting to the moon had been a long time coming. He was an Ohio pilot who came from the same soil as Orville and Wilbur, who ejected from a crippled jet fighter over Korea just after turning 21, who flew seven test flights in the X-15 rocket, who saved himself and a crewmate in Gemini 8, who ejected from a lunar landing trainer a split second before it crashed.
India's only satellite orbiting the moon came close to failure after overheating but scientists improvised to save it and have achieved more than 90 percent of the mission's objectives, an official said Friday.
NASA could put a man on the moon but didn't have the sense to keep the original video of the live TV transmission.
- Over the three and a half years from July 1969 to December 1972, six teams of astronauts walked on the moon. They went from “We came in peace for all mankind” to the parting words, “We’ll be back.”
Like a car salesman pushing a luxury vehicle that the customer no longer can afford, NASA has pulled out of its back pocket a deal for a cheaper ride to the moon.
Scientists have found new evidence that one of Saturn's moons has an ocean beneath its surface. That's important because liquid water is a key ingredient for life.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - When the Soviet Union was beating America’s pants off heaving cosmonauts into orbit, a young president named John Fitzgerald Kennedy called a handful of top space experts in and decided Americans would walk on the moon.
NASA launched its first moon shot in a decade Thursday, sending up a pair of unmanned science probes that will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come.
"Moon" does something extraordinary: It seems familiar and derivative, yet upends your expectations about science fiction and surprises you over and over. Melancholy and mesmerizing, equal parts mystery and character drama, it keeps you guessing until the end.
Poor Pluto. First it gets kicked out of the planet club, now it's not even the coldest place in the solar system. Dark craters near the moon's south pole have snatched that title – which is good news for the prospects of finding water ice on Earth's companion.
Star-gazing may be free, but the Human Space Flight Plans Committee, a panel of luminaries and experts appointed by President Obama to assess the future of America's manned space efforts, has found that space exploration is not.
People who maintain that NASA faked the Apollo moon landings have a new piece of evidence to contend with: A lunar orbiter has spied spacecraft and astronaut tracks left behind almost 40 years ago.
First look at Apollo 12 landing site, the Lunar Module descent stage, Experiment package (ALSEP) and Surveyor 3 spacecraft are all visible along with astronaut tracks Neat picture. The details are fantastic!
Two Bangladeshi newspapers have apologised after publishing an article taken from a satirical US website which claimed the Moon landings were faked.
In 1961, the Cold War raged, and for a confrontation that didn't involve combat or military assault it was pretty damned scary.
The largest stumbling block to a consideration of one-way missions is probably political. NASA and Congress are unlikely to do something that could be perceived as signing the death warrants of astronauts.
India's first lunar mission has captured images of the landing site of the Apollo 15 craft, debunking theories that the US mission was a hoax, the country's state-run space agency said Wednesday.
September 3, 2009 The Moon will be full at 11:03 a.m. CDT tomorrow. It is known as the Fruit Moon or Corn Moon. Most years, September's full Moon is also the Harvest Moon. This year, however, it's too far from the fall equinox, so October's full Moon gets the honor.
Getting humans to Mars will require medical research on the International Space Station through at least 2020, said the program's lead scientist, presenting a time frame five years beyond NASA's current budget forecast.
India's space agency ended an $82 million mission to map the surface of the moon after failing to restore contact with its unmanned Chandrayaan I craft.
I remember when you would cry beside me. I still remember how you would let go with me. Not once did I shed tears with you, and yet you could be impetuous or wounded, or impish without reservation with me. Not that I mind, for you compel me still, like the moon in the blues …
Here is a 6 minute clip showing many ufo photos and footage. Many are without explanation but it's definately worth a view. Cheers, Lenny.
With 800 sightings reported between 1993 and 1996 it's reasonable to conclude that many of these have rational explanations (I'm not the type who believes that all reports are evidence).
Monday morning is going to be a good time to go outside and look up. It might be a great time to take your camera and tripod and see if you can capture what you see.
It is amazing how correct this man's analysis was years before these events actually happened. Also, he gives a nice rationale for going to the moon intstead of heading directly to mars.
I don't know what to think of these pics. They look strange but maybe they are experimental aircraft created by the powers that be. However, an interesting watch.
UFOs over the Northern Territory...these things certainly get around! With so many reports coming from so many places and people we have to acknowledge that something is going on.
This article describes a new technology to extract oxygen from moon rock. If his works out in the "real world" it would be a big step towards life on the moon.
It looks like LCROSS instruments are working well. They have detected, accurately, the components of Earth's atmosphere and vegetation?, but could not detect intelligence. Only 2 months to go for the big Moon BOOM!.
Legend has it that the full moon brings out the werewolf in people, and has eerie effects on vampires. For those of us who have worked a graveyard shift for the general public, we have learned a great respect for the full moon.
The contest will challenge small teams comprised of children and adults to design, program and construct robots that perform simulated lunar missions similar to those required to win the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize, a private race to the moon designed to enable commercial ex …
Even a Soviet cosmonaut has come forward claiming that aliens and UFOs are real. "Grechko has gone on record stating that he believes that UFO visitation is real and that aliens have in fact been visiting earth for thousands of years."
Sarnia residents are planning a cheeky protest against an American electronic systems provider that's testing its newest technology – an 18-metre-long balloon equipped with a surveillance camera – on their city from across the border.
Can the asymmetric distribution of craters on the Moon be explained by the known distribution of near Earth asteroids that are thought to have caused them? Their answer is a cautious "no". More Articles