The Hackers Who Recovered NASA’s Lost Lunar Photos, Wired “Sitting incongruously among the hangars and laboratories of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley is the squat facade of an […]
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Earth Before Earth Day
Earth Before Earth Day “Long before man journeyed to the moon and looked back at the tiny, fragile planet that houses humanity, remote orbiters were sending back pictures of home. […]
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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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Looking at Earth From the Moon (Again) in 1966
The ‘Other’ Lunar Orbiter 1 Earthrise Image, Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project “A newly enhanced image of Earth taken from lunar orbit 47 years ago has been released. The image, […]
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Looking Back On How To Look Forward in Space
The Path Forward In American Space – 2014 Edition, Dennis Wingo, SpaceRef “I AM UNEASY. I resent the passive attitudes many scientists have toward the challenge of science, especially their […]
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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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Who Owns The Moon?
Lunar property rights, Economist “According to the United Nations Outer Space Treaty, signed by every space-faring country, no nation can claim sovereignty over Earth’s lunar satellite. 102 countries have entered […]
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LADEE Extended
NASA Extends LADEE Moon Exploring Satellite Mission “NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, or LADEE, observatory has been approved for a 28-day mission extension. The spacecraft is now expected […]
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Another Forgotten Earthrise Revisited
Another Lunar Orbiter Earthrise Retrieved and Enhanced, Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project “The other day, as we were going through tapes from Lunar Orbiter IV we came across a picture […]