NASA Cooperative Agreement Notice Draft Announcement for a Joint SMD and HEOMD Science and Exploration Institute and Request for Comments “NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and Human Exploration and Operations […]
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A Hinge in History
Keith’s note:We first sent humans to the Moon for reasons that now seem more romantic and idealistic than than they are relevant to today’s world. That said, this achievement transcended […]
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Neil Armstrong Has Died
Keith’s 3:14 pm note: Multiple sources in and around NASA and the space community confirm to NASA Watch that Neil Armstrong, the first human to walk on another world, has […]
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Earthrise + 46 Years
First Earthrise Photo Taken 46 Years Ago Today “46 Years ago today, on 23 August 1966, Lunar Orbiter 1 snapped the first photo of Earth as seen from lunar orbit. […]
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New Uses for Old Moon Data
Comparing Moon Boulders: Lunar Orbiter (1967) Vs LRO (2012) “[Left] image taken on 11 August 1967 by Lunar Orbiter 5 [Right] Image taken of the same location by LRO in […]
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Video: Everyone Wants To Go (Back) To The Moon
ExxonMobil: “The United States ranks 17th in the world in science. It’s time to raise the bar and elevate our academic standards. Let’s do what’s best for our students by […]
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Printing The Moon One Character At A Time
Printing The Moon, Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project “As clever as we thought we were, we were not the first team to tackle the issue of generating high resolution imagery. […]
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The Moon Keeps Getting Wetter
Ice Found in Shackleton Crater on the Moon, NASA “NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned data that indicate ice may make up as much as 22 percent of […]
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Obama to Romney: Will You Fire Mike Griffin?
Will Mitt Romney Fire Space Advisor Michael Griffin For Proposing Permanent Moon Base?, BarackObama.com “While speaking to Global Space Exploration Conference in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, Romney Space Advisor Michael […]
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Preserving History on The Moon
NASA Offers Guidelines To Protect Historic Sites On The Moon “NASA and the X Prize Foundation of Playa Vista, Calif., announced Thursday the Google Lunar X Prize is recognizing guidelines […]