China’s Chang’e-3 Heads For The Moon (with video), SpaceRef “China’s Chang’e-3 lunar rover Yutu (“Jade rabbit”) left Earth today aboard a Long March IIIB rocket today. Liftoff occurred at 12:30 […]
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Were You Wondering About China's Long-Term Moon Goals?
China aims for the Moon, Nature “Space analysts expect that the lunar and crewed objectives of China’s space-flight programme will merge, with Chinese astronauts (known as taikonauts) aiming to walk […]
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China/U.S. Collaboration on LADEE/Chang'e 3? Not Likely
China’s 1st Moon Lander May Cause Trouble for NASA Lunar Dust Mission, Space.com “Conversely, with some sort of communication between the missions, including NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO),” talk between […]
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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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American Moonwalkers Suggest Cooperation With China's Moon Plans
China’s bold lunar plan, Craig Covault, Aerospace America “Astronauts Buzz Aldrin of Apollo 11 and Eugene Cernan of Apollo 17 tell Aerospace America that engineering details emerging from China’s first […]
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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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ARC PAO Drags Their Feet on LADEE Problems
Keith’s 3:10 pm EDT note: LADEE slipped into safe mode again yesterday morning when its star trackers experienced an alignment error. This error has been fixed and the spacecraft is […]
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Lunar Orbiter Imagery On The Big Screen
Lunar Orbiter Imagery Presented on NASA Ames Hyperwall 2, Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project “Last week one of the images retrieved by the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) was […]