Lost in space, opinion, George Abbey, Washington Examiner “America needs a space policy that has a vision that can build on past achievements and keep moving forward. A big part […]
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John Houbolt
NASA moon landing engineer John C. Houbolt dies at 95, AP “John C. Houbolt, an engineer whose contributions to the U.S. space program were vital to NASA’s successful moon landing […]
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LADEE Makes A New Lunar Crater
NASA Completes LADEE Mission with Planned Impact on Moon’s Surface “Ground controllers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., have confirmed that NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment […]
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Glaring Inconsistencies in U.S. Space Collaboration Policies
Head of China’s space science reaches out, Nature “Some think that the Chang’e-3 mission provides an opportunity for China and NASA to collaborate. How has that been going? It is […]
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The Significance of China's Moon Landing
A New Site to Explore on the Moon, Paul Spudis, Air & Space “… we are poised to investigate a new site on the Moon of considerable interest and complexity, […]
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Google Lunar X Prize Is Lowering Its Expectations
Recognizing Giant Leaps: Google Lunar XPRIZE Establishes Milestone Prizes, Alex Hall, Space.com “Two years ago, XPRIZE began a dialogue with teams to better understand the challenges that they were facing […]
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LADEE Makes LOI-2 Burn
Keith’s note: According to someone at NASA: “LADEE just completed a successful firing of its main engine in the second lunar orbit insertion (LOI-2) burn! We are now in a […]
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Forgotten Apollo Era Moon Imagery Found
Misplaced High Resolution Lunar Orbiter Imagery Found After 46 Years “High resolution imagery from the Lunar Orbiter program, forgotten for nearly 50 years, has been retrieved from original data tapes. […]
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LADEE Is Orbiting The Moon
Keith’s note: According to someone at NASA: “Early this morning (October 6), we fired LADEE’s main engine in a braking maneuver known as the Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) burn. This […]
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LADEE is Heading For The Moon
LADEE is Heading For The Moon with One Small Glitch (with video) “NASA has confirmed that the reaction wheels of its Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) were successfully […]