NASA Seeks Data from Innovative Lunar Demonstrations “NASA has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to purchase specific data resulting from industry efforts to test and verify vehicle capabilities through […]
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New Director at NASA Lunar Science Institute
NASA Names New Director for Lunar Science Institute “Yvonne Pendleton has been named director of the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) headquartered at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. […]
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Why Aren't We Hearing More About JSC's Project-M?
“This video is of NASA Project M Lander free flight test at Armadillo Aerospace outside of Dallas. The lander launched on June 23rd 2010. This is the prototype of the […]
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More Water Ice Found On The Moon
Ice Rich Crater At The Moon’s North Pole “NASA Radar returns first high-resolution view of an unusual crater near Moon’s north pole Mini-RF, a synthetic aperture radar on board NASA’s […]
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Moon Water Update
A Wetter Moon Impacts Understanding of Lunar Origin, Paul Spdis, Air & Space “A paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes lunar samples containing […]
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Water Worlds
Research Suggests Water Content Of Moon Interior Underestimated “NASA-funded scientists estimate from recent research that the volume of water molecules locked inside minerals in the Moon’s interior could exceed the […]
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Does Anyone Else Have a Moon Rock at Home?
TV Station Finds Missing Moon Rock, 7 News “The station decided to call former Gov. John Vanderhoof to find out if he remembered what happened to the plaque presented to […]
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Lunar Boulders ala 1966 and 2010
More Boulders As Seen By Lunar Orbiter 2 “This high resolution image, subframe 2128_H2, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 2 on 22 November 1966 at 20:18:27 GMT. Two areas containing […]
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Unlikely Alliances Against Obama Space Policy
NASA’s mission to nowhere: Big, fat, pointless and expensive describes plan to twiddle our fingers, Paul Spudis and Bob Zubrin, Washington Times “Although we are known for holding different opinions […]
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Technoarchaeology In Action
From Obsolete Technology, New Science, NOVA, PBS “Today, an engineer named Dennis Wingo is working to resurrect that data. He co-leads the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project–which, as the name […]